You might be wondering how NaNoWriMo is going ?? I would have shown you a photo of me writing…but I look a little scary these days. Too much caffeine, late nights, hating my writing and a lot of head banging … Continue reading
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The Draco Stone continues…
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Chapter I Scene IV He turns immediately to the left and begins picking his way through the dim brush. We proceed single file. For many hours we trek with only the unicorns’ sight to guide us through the darkness. As … Continue reading
Day 6 of NaNoWriMo
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Well you may be asking how it is all going. I had to take the weekend off to wizz up to Auckland…which provided lots of photo taking opportunities. It also provided a chance to get dressed up. Gilly tells me … Continue reading
12.01 am
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It is impossible to sleep. I have worked myself right in to this whole NaNoWriMo thing. So what the heck…I am starting right now. Well as soon as I post this I am. Not even going to look online until … Continue reading
The short story that morphed in to a novel.
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Tomorrow NaNoWriMo begins. As does my task of taking Deveron on his journey to retrieve the Draco Stone and return it to the Opinouwi. For now I would like to share with you the short story that started it all. … Continue reading
Buckshot rides again…with the Winchester boys !!!!!!
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Now Friday the 3rd of August is officially Frontierado Day. What’s that you ask ??? Ed explains it here. There are recipes and Frontierado Poker and Silverado. Due to some glitches with the computer I have been lax this year … Continue reading
Create A World Writing Contest.
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Sorry guys…I’m back chasing People’s Choice votes again. This time I entered a story over at The Dark Globe. It is an edited version of an earlier story I posted in my fiction pages. Less wordy and I hope better … Continue reading
A Taste of Honey – Part III
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“Her name was Honey Murray. You were named after her.” Daddy hands me the photo. “She was different. As she grew up, she felt it more and more. While other girls fantasized about Elvis, or the boy down the road, … Continue reading
Brightie’s Unaccountable Allhallows Evening.
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“C’mon Brightie, we’ll be late,” Arthur pleaded with his wife as she slowly traced the outline of her lips with lipstick. “You don’t need all that muck on, you’re always the prettiest girl in the room.” If they didn’t … Continue reading
A Taste of Honey – Part 2
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Seven years later, I still don’t understand. “I’m sorry,” Father Gormbles says. Funny, nothing has changed. I’m an adult now, yet he still looks through me with his vacant milky eyes. “We really must start. I have a christening coming.” … Continue reading
The Watcher
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Okay – I’ve taken the Indy Ink Challenge for the first time. I was challenged by Melissa R to write something that included the following: 97 degrees, a subway ride, a high school classmate, a woman in a hat with … Continue reading
A Taste of Honey – Part 1
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Mother’s pace quickens as we approach the last shop in town, dragging me past the window filled with fairies in tuxedos and white lace, holding hands atop swirling ivory layers. Petite wine-red roses, purple irises with yellow tongues, orange poppies … Continue reading
Buckshot Bryant
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BUCKSHOT BRYANT Joanne “Buckshot” Bryant was a notorious bank and train robber and is possibly best-remembered as the Queen of the Rustlers in the American West of the 1800′s. It could truly be said that this queen came from a … Continue reading
The first kiss…
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There weren’t a lot of people at the party when she arrived. She can’t remember who she went with, or how she got there, and is not sure whose party it was. She does remember the boy. The features of … Continue reading
Happy Hour
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The yard had lost its greenness and only the slightest breeze caused small eddies of dust to cover everything in a fine film. The deck, on the south side of the house, was the only place that offered shelter from … Continue reading
A Gentle Seduction
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For my writers group exercise we had to write a seduction scene in the style of Mills and Boon. I had fun doing it. It’s harder than you think to keep to the genre. Part two of the exercise was … Continue reading
Legend
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Some legends live amongst the world, discussed, debated, believed or scorned. My legend belongs to a few, those that know. Those who don’t, live in a state of imperfect oblivion. And then there are those that wonder. These are … Continue reading
Using Cliches and ‘Having A Ball’
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Dyed in The Wool (I had so much fun writing this for my writers group – and watching the horror on their faces as cliche after cliche tumbled out of my mouth until they realised I was doing it intentionally) … Continue reading
When you have to go, you can’t be fussy…
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Abelard struggled through the tavern. Each step was difficult as he felt his bowels rumble in warning. He sucked his butt cheeks firmly together and prayed he would make it through the mass of tightly packed bodies. The heat from … Continue reading
