I decided to try to do a short story fantasy writing contest, due on June 30. This is as far as I have gotten. 😛 I am sure I will figure out where to go from here - eventually. 😛 The person who does not occasionally dream of leaving this world is non-existent. And very occasionallyContinue reading "Beginning of a story"
Blue Sky
So, I found this "writing exercise": A plane crashes into the sea. Most of the passengers escape with inflatable lifeboats but they do not board them correctly. Your character ends up on a lifeboat that holds eight people but there are twelve people on it, and it’s sinking. Your character can either throw four peopleContinue reading "Blue Sky"
Protected: A New Beginning
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Protected: Somebody to Love Me
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NaNo Novel beginning?
Once upon a time, there was a village, le village de rêves. It was tucked far back in the mountains of California. The Sierra Nevada mountains, when one thinks of them, generally bring about feelings of cold beauty, but in the tiny town, tucked in a small valley in their midst, there was nothing butContinue reading "NaNo Novel beginning?"
Protected: Another Sleepless Night
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Frozen Flowers
A man sat in the middle of a forest, in the middle of a garden, in the middle of a bench. Or was it a man? Perhaps it was a boy. He looked very like a lost little boy sitting in the midst of frozen flowers. Funny thing about the first, unexpected frost. If oneContinue reading "Frozen Flowers"
Protected: Dreams for thought
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Protected: Stoled From Marissa (and hence, Abby)
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Novel Destinations
I have a new goal in life that I am quite excited about. I discovered, while shopping in Anthropologie the other day, a book called "Novel Destinations" that talked about landmarks that are present in many different class books "from Jane Austen's Bath to Ernest Hemingway's Key West." Well, considering I had recently realized IContinue reading "Novel Destinations"
Forest Idylls 