S+7 Writing Exercise (Part 2)

So last night, I introduced a random writing exercise I found in one of my writing books.  To reiterate: The S+7 Exercise: Take a line from any text, and begin to copy it.  Every time you come to a noun, you look up that noun in a dictionary, then count seven words forward in the…

S+7 Writing Exercise

Once again, I’ve procrastinated writing anything for the blog today, but to be fair, it is a super-long vacation weekend, and I know things will get back on a more regular schedule come Monday. However, I am still committed to one post a day, so here I am.  I’ve been flipping through the many books…

Writing is like the Firefly board game…

I spent a great New Year’s Day hosting our annual Firefly party, which means I didn’t have time to think about writing at all, but everybody needs a day off sometimes. Here’s a photo of the game by Gale Force Nine, which takes up our entire dining room table with its multiple expansions and so many different…