Wow. This year has really vanished . Things have been interesting lately. I’ve been working on multiple projects – First, there was the Christmas Anthology that was– then there was the Anthology that wasn’t. Communications kinda fell apart and I was writing and working but I got forgotten. Yeah- that happens. So, I ended up […]
Read More A Year Among The Stars – UpdateI’m attending a writer’s retreat this weekend and one of the exercises for overcoming writer’s block was to look at a picture and put an element from the picture into your story – you don’t need to include it – but I think I’ll keep it… My picture prompt was a kitten… and this was […]
Read More A Year Among the Stars – AllegoryAuthor: Lou Aronica Title: Pages: 366 Formats: Hardback, Paperback, Kindle, Audio Book ISBN-10: 1611881005 ISBN-13: 978-1611881004 Availability: Amazon Website: Lou Aronica Book Blurb: USA TODAY BESTSELLERJesse Sienna doesn’t believe that love can last. His parents’ marriage was caring but passionless, and his own romantic history tells him that love can burn bright, but that it cannot burn […]
Read More Book Review – The Forever Year by Lou AronicaFebruary 7th, 2552 New Protocols Metallurgy trainee/Lab Rat – Katherine ‘Kat’ James Reporting Spending the night onboard the Twilight was— surreal. There’s only a skeleton crew, and everyone there was either sleeping with a spacesuit in hand, sleeping in an escape pod – or simply not sleeping. I spent most of the night dozing in […]
Read More 38-Valkyrie’s View: A Year Among the StarsI just got back from the Author Transformation Alliance’s Annual Spring Retreat. This year it was held at the Natural Bridge Hotel in Natural Bridge, VA (Lexington I believe). The site was amazing, and I am really glad that I decided to actually go and see the Natural Bridge. It was gorgeous, but my back […]
Read More RenewalI feel like I’m sitting on the edge of a storm front, things are coming my way, things I’ve worked for and now I’m caught up in a wave…and I just have to ride it out and see where it goes. I’m learning that it is possible to be excited, and proud and terrified at […]
Read More A Moment of Reflection and Upcoming EventsWhat happens when a bunch of writers decide there isn’t enough FlashFiction in their lives? Why, they issue a challenge – Write a story inspired by Annie Lennox ‘s “No More I Love Yous – 500-700 words – post it on your blog… and share the link. Here is my Monster Mash-up for the Halloween […]
Read More MonsterMash Blog HopAbout this time 18 years ago, I had just finished “A Year in Seattle” where I told a story in journal format – posting one entry a day for a year. When I started I doubted I’d make it, but by the time I finished, I was hooked. I lasted, maybe a week before my […]
Read More A(nother) Year in SeattleThis week’s Flash Friday prompt inspiration was “Pilgrim’s Progress” and the Elements that were given almost wrote the story in my head… only with 100 words +/- 1.. I had my work cut out for me. The first draft started out nicely: Good and Evil walked together last night, down that long and winding road. They talked about […]
Read More Anatomy of an edit: Less might not be more, but sometimes it’s betterIt’s that time of year again: friends vanish for long stretches of time and start obsessing about word counts and write-ins, all in the name of NaNoWriMo. For those of you who haven’t heard about it, November is National Novel Writing Month, and for one month writers all over the world try to write 50,000 […]
Read More Welcome to the insanity that is: NaNoWriMo