Reasons for Gratitude
With all the ugliness in the world, I am blessed to have this beauty in my life. In a word: family. More specifically: grandchildren. Aren’t they beautiful? What blessings are you grateful for today?
Seeking an Answer to the Genre Question
Genre fiction satisfies my need for escape and entertainment. Of course, I generally read in three or four genres, but it might surprise you to learn I don’t write in the same genres I read. Or at least, I didn’t. Remember, I’m on a quest this year to rest and refill my creative well. While …
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How I Stub My Toe on Genre
During this season of rest, I’ve been experimenting writing various genres, hoping something will incite my passion for writing once more. This exercise revealed a few truths; the first: genre is a rock bent on stubbing my writing muscles. I already knew this. I learned it in various ways: Creating a brand for my website …
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One Wonderful Year of Being Lolly
I’ve been a Lolly for a year. A year? Who can believe this? Not this Lolly or her associated Pop. A year? It can’t be. Time flows faster the older I get. Yes, I said it. It’s the closest you’ll get to a public admission that I might be getting older. Not old, Darrin. Older. …
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Writing from the Keyboard’s Perspective
The keyboard sat quietly waiting for the fingers of its familiar friend. Over the past five years together, they’d sent nearly 1.5 million words from the nebulous universe of a creative soul onto paper. Sure, some of those words never left the computer files. But many of them had soared into the world of publishing …
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A Bit of Poetry
This month, I’ve been participating in Camp NaNoWriMo. My only goal was to write 500 words per day. My challenge was to ignore the lack of a muse and put words on paper no matter what. Overall, I’ve met the challenge. I’ve managed to create some decent writing on many days. Amidst the blogs, flash …
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Three Things Being Quarantined Taught Me about Introverts
Learning is one of my superpowers. I enjoy discovering something new in this “nothing new under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1: 9) world. I’m entering the fourth week of mandatory “stay at home” orders during the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine and decided it’s time to share a few early lessons. First off, I hope this quarantine will …
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If not an Author Maybe I’ll be a Freelance Writer
If you read my last post, you probably didn’t expect to see another bit of writing from me. After all, I claimed the dream to write was dead. What’s this about being a freelance writer then? Here’s the thing, even people with dead dreams need to eat. Okay, the truth is I don’t need to …
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Mourning and Hope: Follow Up to ‘The Death of a Dream’
Mourning and Hope? I must be crazy. Those two things could not possible exist at the same time, so why have I paired them in a sentence? Friends, I’m in mourning. More on that in this post. But I’m not without hope even if my post “The Death of a Dream” sounded like it to …
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How Would They Respond to COVID-19?
Authors do all sorts of crazy things to interest readers in their books. At a time when it feels a bit like the world had gone crazy, I thought it would be fun to apply one of these techniques to a blog post. It begins with a question that only your fictional characters can answer. …
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