When a Story Strikes
Story lines are ever plentiful around my desk. There are times when I can read the Police Blotter in the local paper and find at least ten of the little buggers waiting to be taken out for a spin....
View ArticleClaudsy’s Blog: Minor Challenge Update
Imagination can set you free. Last week I issued a small challenge to those who’ve ignored those bits and pieces of projects in their possession. Those projects were eager contestants at one point in...
View ArticleTaking On Reality and a Minor Challenge
The Passage of Time (Photo credit: ToniVC) If you’re like me, you have more than enough challenge in an average day to keep you occupied for a lifetime. Or so it seems. At the moment I have too many...
View Article2013 Poetry Month–Day 9
Poetry is an… (Photo credit: liber(the poet);) Day 9 started out for me with poetic asides. Two for Tuesday comes around each week with opposites usually, and today’s prompt held true to the pattern....
View ArticleClaudsy’s Blog: Characters on First and Third
Every writer of fiction makes a choice at the inception of a story project. She chooses whether to write the piece in first person or third. As soon as voice is established, another choice comes into...
View ArticleClaudsy’s Blog: Wasting Time
Courtesy of BJJones Photography As many of my friends and followers know, I was on vacation in June, contracted pneumonia, spent time in the hospital, and am now trying to finish healing at home. I...
View ArticleClaudsy’s Blog: Shaking Hands with Opportunity
Yesterday I was talking with a writer/teacher friend of mine, Nancy Sondel, who operates the Pacific Coast Children’s Writers Novel Workshop & Retreat. We were talking shop, workloads, and...
View ArticleClaudsy’s Blog: Bridging the Gap
Courtesy of BJJones Photography It’s taken forever, but decisions on a design for my author’s website are ready to implement. And after long consideration, I forced myself to turn a corner that I’d...
View Article#CTC29 Day 5 – Morphological Forced Connections
Preamble Today’s prompt is somewhat similar to yesterday’s in terms of random words and associations. The difference today is that we are associating a random character, a random situation, a random...
View Article#CTC29 Day 7 – Larger Than Life Hero
Preamble Today we are asked to explore the Larger Than Life Hero archetype. The challenge is write a short scene that shows this hero facing a “pet the dog” moment so they can be related to. The word...
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