Blue and White Pendant by How Many Dragons?

Oh. My. God. It finally happened. I kinda missed a day. WordPress was nice enough to let me backdate this post, but I’ll admit it: it’s 12:05am on Sunday, actually. (And then I couldn’t go to bed without more editing, so it’s even later now.)  Sigh. I’ve been busy today — went to a new…

Wednesday Writing Craft… Help for the stuck?

It’s nearly the end of Wednesday, the day I’m supposed to post some Writing Craft and Wisdom, but my own writing has just been so stuck lately that I had no idea what to even say. That’s a great quote from David Sedaris, a favorite of mine, but really, I feel like if I could…

Golden Dragon Pendant by How Many Dragons?

Well folks, it’s Monday, which means this ought to be a Writing Prompt post.  But sadly, the writing just wasn’t flowing tonight, and I’d rather wait to post something good rather than something slapdash because of an arbitrary deadline. So instead, please enjoy this adorable little Golden Dragon Pendant by my favorite Etsy artist Lindy…

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…