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Writing Prompt Wednesday #75: Fun Words

For this week’s writing prompt, I wanted to talk about fun words. Words we like to roll off our tongues, words that are fun to say out loud, those kinds of words. Read on to see some of my fun words. These are some of mine: discombobulated, bamboozled, cornucopia, gobbledygook, hullabaloo, hootenanny, jabberwocky, swashbuckler, and […]

Writing Prompt Wednesday #74

For this week’s prompt**, I am using one I found in one of my old writing notebooks I used at a Paddle Creek Writers meeting a couple years ago. I thought I would share it here and see what your thoughts are on ebooks now that they have gone mainstream and are quite popular. My […]

Writing Prompt Wednesday #73

This week’s writing prompt is based on this short dialogue with my then four-year-old: Mariah walked into the kitchen where I was working and asked, “Is everyone weird?” I replied yes. She answered, “I don’t want to be weird, I just want to be cute.” She was in a conversation with her siblings at the […]

Writing Prompt Wednesday #72

Happy Wednesday to you! I hope it’s sunny where you are.  Around here, it’s supposed to be another rainy dreary day… This week’s writing prompt is using the following sentence fragment: The kettle whistled in the empty kitchen… What happens, who is supposed to be using the now hot water and why aren’t they in […]

Writing Prompt Wednesday #71

This week’s prompt is based on the following photo. My friend Sarah took the it at the book festival a few weeks ago. What does this photo say to you? Here is my prompt: The crossword puzzle at the festival got a lot of lookers, but not very many participants to fill in the answers. […]

My Trip to Tucson Festival of Books

Let’s just say up front, as everybody probably wants to know, that at the Tucson Festival of Books, I did not sell ONE book. Not one copy of Cookie Encounter was sold. Sigh. Okay, now that that’s out of the way, I can say though, that because I had a good friend to stay and […]

Writing Prompt Wednesday #70

Hello there, I’m sorry I haven’t posted about my trip to the Tucson Festival of Books yet. I will get to it. I wasn’t anticipating my son being sick the night after I got home or getting sick myself the next day. I am still adjusting to the time change and since our first day […]

Writing Prompt Wednesday #69

For this week’s writing prompt, I thought I’d share just a little about my trip to Tucson, where I attended the Tucson Festival of Books over the weekend. Let’s just say that this setup is humongous and a little overwhelming. I just got back from Tucson last night. I am now adjusting to a two hour […]

February 2017 Reading Wrap Up

I read a lot of books in February, while curled up with a blanket and sometimes a cup of hot cocoa. And thanks to Goodreads, and Reading is My SuperPower, my TBR list keeps growing. Of the 11 books read this month, two were nonfiction. One was pretty funny, I Work at a Public Library, […]

Writing Prompt Wednesday #68

Today’s writing prompt, is an update on what’s going on my life. Today I’m making preparations for my trip to the Tucson Festival of Books. I fly out on Thursday morning. I’m packing, rethinking, packing less, packing more, you know what I mean. I’m trying not to take anything unnecessary. Copies of Cookie Encounter have been […]