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…

I went looking for questions to answer…

Last night, as promised, I went searching for a book of writing prompts, something to spur my novel writing along and help me to flesh out the details of my world and story, in a neat little format I could publish here as daily blog posts, in order to keep myself on track and accountable. I…

Day two, and another idea…

It is the second day of this blog’s existence, and the fifth — and probably not yet final — layout/theme choice, and I’m still noodling ideas for what to make of it overall. I plan to look for a daily writing prompt book at the Barnes & Nobel near my office tonight, something to give…

Welcome to my Writing Dragons Blog

This is going to be a short post, because I’m working on customizing this new site (there are so many options!), and also because I’m looking forward to figuring this all out by taking the free WordPress “Blogging 101: Zero to Hero” course starting next week. My plan for this blog is to try writing exercises every…