There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book. ~ Marcel Proust

[Reading Time: < 1 minute] Thanks to Rose DesRochers – World Outside My Window and Shawn DesRochers at visionthishosting.com my writing site has been given the opportunity to migrate from Blogger to self-hosted WordPress. Please bear with me as I spruce up the new digs and settle in.

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§63 · March 4, 2010 · asides · Comments Off ·


[Reading Time: 2 - 2 minutes] This is a sponsored guest post written by Leon on behalf of Pashmina International. Post powered by Sponzai. It’s been a long winter this year for most of us. Definitely one where extra strings have been pulled to keep up warm. The Nepalese have had much, much colder winters [...]

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§49 · February 25, 2010 · paid post · Comments Off · Tags:


[Reading Time: 2 - 4 minutes] We’ve all been there. We scratch our head and stare at a blank screen [piece of paper]. Trying desperately to create. Okay, we just want to get some words down and feel like we are the writers we claim to be. You know it’s true. Don’t deny it. Yet, [...]

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§48 · January 18, 2010 · contests-submissions, other · 7 comments · Tags: ,


[Reading Time: 2 - 3 minutes] “Aaahhhhhhhhh!” “Feel better?” asked Jack. I looked around and remembered I was in a building filled with people. I was not alone. “Not really,” I replied. “Are you feeling alright?” Livie, my kid sister asks me, “and did you just answer me before I asked the question?” “Huh? No, [...]

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§47 · December 13, 2009 · NaNoWriMo, Short Story · 7 comments · Tags: ,


[Reading Time: 1 - 2 minutes] I decided to take some of Holly‘s advice on crafting poetry and practice with the various forms. This is truly not as easy as it might seem. And it does not help when you pick words like ‘under’ that have so few words with which to rhyme. Good or [...]

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§46 · November 23, 2009 · poetry · 6 comments · Tags:


[Reading Time: 10 - 16 minutes] Note: This is completely raw and unedited. After what seemed an eternity I fell asleep. Not that sleep was much better than the tossing and turning I was doing while awake. In my first dream I dreamt I was adrift at sea. The waves crashing against the side of [...]

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§45 · November 20, 2009 · NaNoWriMo · 8 comments · Tags:


[Reading Time: 2 - 4 minutes] Congratulations to everyone for their wonderful contributions. I checked out everyone’s entry yet I forgot to vote. {smacks forehead} Every week the wonderful folks at PlotDog Press hold the W.O.O.F. Contest where you submit your writing and you and others who submit vote and choose their [your] favorites. W.O.O.F. [...]

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§44 · November 17, 2009 · WOOF contest · 10 comments · Tags:


[Reading Time: 2 - 3 minutes] I thought I would share a snippet of one my steamier scenes. I read through it and feel it’s PG enough for this blog. ********************************* His arms draw me backward and into him. It would seem he was in a state of undress as well. His hands wrap around [...]

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§43 · November 13, 2009 · NaNoWriMo · 6 comments · Tags:


[Reading Time: 2 - 4 minutes] So, here I am procrastinating again. Sure, I’m ahead on my word count overall, but I worry I will fall behind at some point. Must keep up the momentum ~ and cook ~ and do laundry ~ and everything else. I wrote this in one of the first days [...]

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§41 · November 9, 2009 · NaNoWriMo · 8 comments · Tags: