C.A. Clark's Blog, page 15

Never on a Sunday...

because that's a day of rest...(this week my titles are snippets of songs)

I wrote to today's story a day (dot) org prompt: Obsession and passion



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Saturday what a day

Saturday the 3rd of May has been wet. It has been raining most of the day since the wee small hours.
I read two novels yesterday and will do reviews on them shortly. I was disappointed at the number of grammatical errors overlooked in both published works. Things such as 'then' when it should be 'than' or dialogue attributed to the wrong character. Writers are expected to edit their own work but

Friday on my mind

What a lovely relaxing day it has been. I slept late, indulged in a little reading, rang my sister, did a little more reading, did some grocery shopping,  had lunch and did some more reading and have only just stopped mid chapter to do my daily post.

Last night I wrote a short story and submitted it to a competition
Last night I sent the first two chapters of a novel I have written to another

Oh my goodness it is May already

May today and what a day. Today I won a book and I was nominated for a blog award. Today I submitted a picture book manuscript to Rate Your Story.

Today I looked back over April adn realised I won a mug, a tee shirt, a key ring, a notepad(paper variety), two picuter books and a piece of art. I wrote around 30,000 words and submitted stories to anthologies. I blog hopped to over 260 blogs during

Zed vs Zee

"Zed!" I growled at my daughter "The letter is pronounced ZED we are not American, nor is this the 57th state of that particular country."  I was fuming. I had just read that yet another American based company had bought out yet another Australian company and was attempting to Americanize it, ZEDs and all so I was not in any mood to have my daughter and her friends singing with an American

Y is for Yearning

Yearning = a feeling of intense longing for something.  I have a yearning to be published under my own cover. By this I mean my own novel or picture book. I am working toward that with all the things I do each day. I blog, I blog hop, I read and I study, I practice and practice and I write. Oh I write and write and write.

I read the three Divergent novels in the last two days and I yearn to be

Xenophobia to Xanadu

The ridiculous to the sublime today

Xenophobia is the irrational or unreasoned fear of that which is perceived to be foreign or strange. It comes from the Greek words ξένος (xenos), meaning "strange," "foreigner," and φόβος (phobos), meaning "fear." 
  Xenophobia can manifest itself in many ways involving the relations and perceptions of an ingroup towards an outgroup,
including a fear of

W for Wonder

W is for wonder and there are so many wonderful things in this world and many wonderful things that people do. I felt that I needed to counter my post from yesterday with one of the incredible things that make me wonder.

WRITING 


The Writing world is a wonderful place. I have written so many stories in the past twelve months and joined groups from all genres. I have more than 20 stories

Victory vs violence

Today is ANZAC day in Australia. It is a day to recall the fallen in an ill fated skirmish in Gallipoli off the coast of Turkey in 1915 and those who have perished since in various vignettes of violence for political expediency.

here is a link if you want to know the details  http://www.awm.gov.au/commemoration/a...

ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand

Ubiquitous Underwear

ubiquitous



adjective

adjective: ubiquitous

1.

present, appearing, or found everywhere.

"his ubiquitous influence was felt by all the family"



 synonyms:Omnipresent, ever-present, present everywhere, everywhere, all over, all over the place, pervasive, all-pervasive, universal, worldwide, global. 





A good set of undies should never leave the wearer feeling their ubiquitous nature.