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October 13, 2011
Romantic Friday Writers: First Love
http://fridaynightwriters.blogspot.com/ This blog has a challenge for writers of romance/love stories to write 400 words on a theme each Friday. The theme this week is Fearful Heart. This topic is tailor-made for my current story! Every week I'm finding some way to tie the theme to Kaitlyn and Jason. What an interesting and different way to [...]
October 12, 2011
Disability and Evolution
I had an amazing conversation with one of my favorite people in the world recently. My younger cousin is a brilliant thinker and insightful artist. Conversations with him have always uplifted me and filled me with ideas. We spoke a lot this time about disability. Obviously, it's a subject of great interest to me and [...]
October 10, 2011
CONTEST
I am thrilled to announce that I will be running a contest for fan art based on (W)hole! I know lots of my friends are artists, and even those who are not should try their hand at a creation. *** The prize? An autographed paperback copy of Breath(e), the sequel to (W)hole, when it comes [...]
October 6, 2011
Romantic Friday Writers: Rock Candy
http://fridaynightwriters.blogspot.com/ This blog has a challenge for writers of romance/love stories to write 400 words on a theme each Friday. The theme this week is Rock Candy. I am on a roll with this new story that I started three weeks ago for a Friday challenge! Word Count: 397, full critique acceptable ### Kaitlyn's life changed [...]
October 5, 2011
"Imperfect" Heroes
Why do I use the phrase "imperfect hero" sometimes to describe the men in the stories that I write? Do I think that men who have disabilities are not perfect? Not at all! I think their bodies are absolutely perfect. I use the phrase because it is a common euphemism for disabled male characters in [...]
September 30, 2011
Romantic Friday Writers: Fearful Heart
http://fridaynightwriters.blogspot.com/ This blog has a challenge for writers of romance/love stories to write 400 words on a theme each Friday. The theme this week is Fearful Heart. This is another section of the new story I started last week. This is close to the end… Word Count: 402. Full Critique Acceptable ### "Where is everyone?" Kaitlyn [...]
September 25, 2011
Blog Award
Francine Howarth of Romancing the Blog (what an awesome name is that?) awarded me the Versatile Blogger Award last week. My first blog award Seven things about me Okay, let me think of some things that are not obvious about me from reading this website! 1) I get my exercise learning a classical Indian dance called bharat [...]
September 22, 2011
Romantic Friday Writers: Blue Moon
http://fridaynightwriters.blogspot.com/ This blog has a challenge for writers of romance/love stories to write 400 words on a theme each Friday. The theme this week is Blue Moon. I felt very inspired this week. As soon as I saw the theme, this scene just floated into my mind. I don't know much about these characters or their [...]
September 19, 2011
Interview: Jennifer Wilck
Today's interview is with Jennifer Wilck, the author of A Heart of Little Faith, which is a romance novel with a paraplegic hero. Here is the description from Amazon: "Lily Livingston is a widow raising her six-year-old daughter, Claire, in New York City. Devastated by her husband's death three years ago, she's in no hurry [...]
September 17, 2011
Autism and Me
On my YouTube channel, someone suggested that I talk a bit about the difference between visible and invisible disabilities. I have never called myself disabled. I have an interest in people who have physical disabilities and I always have, but there is another kind of disability that is unrelated to that interest of mine. Up [...]
