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March 23, 2015
Word a Week | Week #3
Welcome to thethird installment of Word a Week. I hope you enjoyed Week #2.
This week’s word comes from my new favorite (old) series, Veronica Mars. I can’t believe it took me this long to watch it. This (fictional) girl is after my heart.
This week’s word is:
inscrutable- [in-skroo-tuh-buhl] 1. incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable. 2. not easily understood; mysterious; unfathomable. 3. incapable of being seen through physically; physically impenetrable.
Fee...
March 21, 2015
Review 5 | TBR Pile Challenge | Middlesex
The TBR Pile Challenge has actually been a challenge for me. I didn’t think that it would be so difficult at times to slog through books that I had, at some point, thought I might want to read. I guess I have never before really tried to get through a book I didn’t like (at least, not since myhigh school reading lists and their dreariness). I have had to give up on at least three books so far.
This is one reason that I was so pleasantly surprised by the book I’m reviewing today. Middlesex by...
March 18, 2015
Genre Hopping | Pick a Thread
Based on what I have written lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about genre hopping in fiction. Is it advisable? Does it work? Does it hurt the author’s brand and confuse readers?
There is a lot of conflicting advice on the subject on the internet. At first search, I found several articles about just this subject (linked below this post). Each of these has a different opinion, if they take an opinion at all, and most people who speak or write on the subject seem to take a hard line one way or t...
March 16, 2015
Word a Week | Week #2
Welcome to the second installment of Word a Week. I hope you enjoyed Week #1.
This week’s word comes from an interesting television show that I watch with my kids on Saturday mornings called Innovation Nation. If you haven’t seen it, check it out; it’s quality programming that doesn’t make my brain feel like jelly.
This week’s word is:
innervate- [ih-nur-veyt] 1. (verb) to communicate nervous energy to;stimulate through nerves.2. to furnish with nerves; grow nerves into.
Feel free to use it a...
March 15, 2015
Clover Special | WOW 555 Flash Fiction Challenge
I haven’t done Wendy Strain’s WOW555 Challenge lately, so I thought I would try my hand at this week’s prompt. The coming holiday inspired her tochoose a clover for a prompt. Here’s my meager contribution (after the deadline, wouldn’t you know it.)
Clover Special
We called himGuns and Ammo. At first, it was a joke, a play on his repetitious selfies loaded with weaponry. “Come and take it,” the captions read. We were a little suspicious, a little on edge. But he was a worm, a nothing. No one...
March 13, 2015
Sixty-Five | Flash for Ten Random Sentences
This little bit ofdark sci-fiis in response to Chuck Wendig’s Ten Random Sentences challenge.
Sixty-Five
Let me drop a truth bomb on you. You’re a fraud, a liar, and a terrible excuse for a soldier. You took something that used to be so pure and turned it into a disgusting charade for the sake of your sexbot and his pulsating member. And I hate you.
But let me back up a bit, shall I?
It was Day 487, and we were all in the Grubbary, standing in line or sitting at our tables, waiting for slop....
March 11, 2015
Review 4 | TBR Pile Challenge | Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man
The last few books I read were less enjoyable than I had hoped they would be, so the next book on my TBR Pile Challengelist was refreshing. Fannie Flagg’s Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man was a quick, enjoyableread.
Years ago, I read Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe and adored it. In the back of my mind, I knew I would read another one of Fannie Flagg’s books one day, and when I found this book at a library sale, I recognized my chance and took it.
Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man is the...
March 10, 2015
March 9, 2015
Word a Week | Week #1
I’ve been trying out ideas for a recurring post, something I could do once a week to get some conversations going, for a while now. I tried a writing prompt, which didn’t get much play, and I tried book reviews, but with my schedule, I’m not able to finish books as often as I would like to post. Then, it dawned on me. I was overthinking it.
So, I’ve decided to post a new word each week on Monday. Feel free to use it as a writing prompt, or leave an amusing or insightful anecdote related to the...
March 5, 2015
Anthology | Faed
A Murder of Storytellers has once again chosen one of my stories, “The Mary Pickford,” for inclusion in one of their anthologies. This one is called Faed.
The good neighbors, the folk under the hill, the fae. Spirits, ghosts, and outsiders, often thought to be gods. They step into the real world to play, not caring or knowing how humans live.And like children playing with dolls, they have the power to completely change the story.
Click this fantastic cover to find out how to purchase your copy...
