The segment that ends Chapter One in Hada’s Fog is entered. You can go to the above menu, click on Hada’s Fog. Chapter One, Scene Two is first. Hada’s footwear is a motif in the novel. She dresses up for traveling, but her blue shoes hurt her swollen feet. She tries to hide the […]
The Free “Time To Write And Color Mini Book” Is Available Now
The sign up is ready. Paula fixed the glitch while she was traveling. She’s the best. People who have signed up for this blog years, weeks, days, hours or possibly minutes ago will still need to sign up to receive the mini book and alerts to my new posts. Plus, the first person who comments […]
Launch Day Approaches
Tuesday is the new design launch for Time to Write Now. My webmaster, Paula Gregorowicz, asked me not to post tomorrow, Monday, and Tuesday so she can make the transfer from the old to the new. All my previous posts will be available as always. The menu bar and banner will be different. I’ll have […]
Where Did Maya Angelou like to work?
Maya Angelo did very little of her writing at home. She said that the comfort of her house was too distracting. “Angelou elected to write in the anonymous tranquility of what she described as “tiny, mean” hotel rooms. She typically rented the rooms for months at a time, and arrived early in the morning armed […]
Klinkenborg Writes About Metaphor
My critique partner in Corpus Christi and I are reading Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg. I’m opening the book at random instead of reading it cover to cover. Today, on p. 43 the topic was metaphor. Klinkenborg states that often metaphors are like “A stage prop, a paraphrase, a clarification, at best, […]
Coloring Books for Grownups New Trend
I’ve read about the new trend for grown-up coloring books. At the Ziggy Marley concert last night a man was selling coloring books for adults with intricate designs of birds and animals.The many reasons for coloring include a need to revert back to simpler days of our childhood, which helps to de-stress. Everyone can do […]
Ziggy Marley Fly Rasta Concert
The Ziggy Marley Fly Rasta Concert last night at Sonoma Mountain Village in Rohnert Park was awesome.We had an hour and a half drive home on a week night so we tried to leave mid-way through the concert. But our friend, Debbie Wiggins, took us by the hand and led us back into the swaying […]