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June 7, 2017
In the Writer’s House: Week #1
Hello and welcome to the new Wednesday posts called In the Writer’s House! Each week I will post personal stories as well as my writing progress. I hope you enjoy these new posts. And as always, feel free to leave a comment, a question, or even dare I say-a complaint. Hopefully there won’t be many […]
May 31, 2017
Writing Prompt Wednesday #80: The Last One
For this week’s writing prompt, I wanted to talk a little bit about high school graduation. But first, I wanted to announce that this writing prompt will be the last regularly scheduled post for Wednesdays. Say what? Yep, it’s time for something new. Instead of writing prompts for Wednesdays, there will be something new starting […]
May 24, 2017
Writing Prompt Wednesday #79
For this week’s writing prompt, I wanted to write about a new word I like and which applies to me. Recently I read an article in the local paper about lexophiles. I qualify as a lexophile. Do you? Don’t know what a lexophile is? Read on to find out what it is and if you […]
May 17, 2017
Writing Prompt Wednesday #78
This week’s writing prompt is about celebrating the end of the school year. Did you have a tradition to do something fun on the last day of school when you were growing up? Do you do something fun with your family now when school is out? Today was our last day of homeschool at Connell […]
May 14, 2017
Happy Mother’s Day!
To all the mothers in the land, I hope you have a wonderful day! I am blessed to have each of my four children and though it makes a writing career challenging, I wouldn’t have it any other way. To be a writer mama has been a dream of mine for a long time. For […]
May 12, 2017
April 2017 Reading Round Up
Last month I read 7 books, 3 fiction and 4 nonfiction. My reading slowed down a bit for this month because it takes me longer to read nonfiction. My brain likes to absorb the facts and information and sometimes I take notes from the books I read. So it takes more time to get through […]
May 10, 2017
Writing Prompt Wednesday #77: A Quote
This week’s writing prompt is based on a quote from Mark Twain: The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why. Do you know why you were created and live today? Might it be because you have a best seller in you? Or […]
May 5, 2017
Southern Kentucky Book Fest (SOKY): Part Two
Last week I wrote the first post about attending the Southern Kentucky Book Fest in Bowling Green, KY (SOKY). If you missed it, you can read it here. Today, I thought I would mention the other authors I met and compare the Book Fest to the Tucson Festival of Books I attended in March. I […]
May 3, 2017
Writing Prompt Wednesday #76
Last week’s prompt was about fun words, so for this week’s writing prompt, I thought I would use a couple of those and start a sentence and see what readers come up with. Tiffany was discombobulated because she did not know the name of that there hootenanny, thingamajig, what’sitsname, thingy… Tiffany was discombobulated because she […]
April 28, 2017
Southern Kentucky Book Fest (SOKY): Part One
Recently I had the opportunity to travel to Kentucky for their SOKY Book Fest. I wanted to check it out to see if it was a good outlet to sell books myself in a year or two. SOKY takes place in Bowling Green, and that is also where the Corvette Museum is located. And since […]
