Category: Prose
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Working #nanowrimo titles
Diamonds and Alibis Alibis and Diamonds Dripping Diamonds Diamonds, Lies and Alibis What do you think?
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Just thought of a nanowrimo plot!
Most of you may know I’m participating in National Novel Writer’s Month for the first time, which basically means you won’t be seeing much of me in November as I embark on my first literary journey. I have been sorta kinda in the back of my mind trying to think of a plot. Today, it hit…
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Writing to Chicago
In honor of Nanowrimo, (or perhaps to keep myself from cheating and using old material) I am publishing some short stories I wrote in college. Let me repeat: I wrote in college. Apologies in advance. Brandy had been sitting in the Accord so long she could barely see past the steam collected on the windshield.…
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Bring on the drama: I need material
When I am sad or heartbroken, the positive thing that I can usually take from it is poetry or short stories or journal entries. When I am happy, my creative writing blows. Never really written about puppies or sunsets – not well, anyway. The past several years have been mostly a happy time for me. Is…
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I will write a novel in 30 days.
Before the end of the year, I will have completed my first novel. I have not started it yet. Writing a book is something I have always wanted to do. When I was 10 I decided I wanted to be a novelist for a living. When I was 11 I decided that would be too…
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Pieces of short stories
I was going through some of my old prose and found a document dated 1999 that I had entitled “short story ideas” and I had written pieces of prose. I always meant to go back and expand on these. So strange to look at something I wrote 9 years ago … Here is one of…