Chris and Ann have never met each other but are both on a plane to Los Angeles. Unfortunately, they will not get there. The plane crashes, and there is a brilliant light into which some of the passengers are walking. But Chris and Ann are both certain that they are just not ready to go. As everyone…
One of the negatives of being surrounded by farms is that you can’t really walk anywhere, not like a regular town, which is where I’d like to move. House has been for sale for a year, but that’s not what I want to write about. One of the positives of being surrounded by farms is…
Book report, essay contest, published novel, self-published novel, Createspace, kindle, nook, ebook, Smashwords, Goodreads, My Disney Scrapbook 2000-2005 all have something in common. Step 5: publishing. What does “publishing” mean? It means you’re done to whatever degree you have decided is done. The book on the right is my novel Room 317, written piece by…
call me slow, but i just realized that mostly all the “ghostly encounters” in my house have something to do with lights and electricity. here’s another. i’ve had this refrigerator about 6 years. there’s a light on the water/ice dispenser, which is a great help when making coffee in the morning if it’s still dark and i don’t…
The picture isn’t important or taken well. It’s a light in my backyard. It’s got a motion sensor that works well. What doesn’t work well is the the light when there’s no motion. At dusk it’s supposed to come on steadily at half strength, then kick to full strength when motion is sensed. But that’s…
At the end of January, when I stopped teaching, I thought about the writing I’ve been promising myself to do for many years. The first thing I did was put a couple of previously written, poorly written, novels for sale as ebooks. There’s the Barnes and Noble “nook” and the Amazon Kindle as well as…
I like to use things for other things when the thing for which they were originally intended is a thing of the past. Yankee Candle jars are great for this because they are a good size, strong, and have a sealed lid. I use them for q-tips in the bathroom because the lid seals out…
There was this headline today on Yahoo!news that linked to a Redbook magazine story about parenting: “Should mom be selling girl scout cookies for her daughter?” Why “be selling”? What is wrong with “Should mom sell Girl Scout cookies for her daughter?” There’s a growing, and annoying, prevalence of “be” in language, and I’m…
to be “freshly pressed” (FP) is cool. it means that someone, somewhere, for some reason, thinks that what you wrote is relevant, witty, visually outstanding, poignant, provocative, or any combination, but not limited to, those nice words. it means your thoughts or product will be posted to be seen by the entire wordpress community, or at…
Some call it proofreading, some call it editing, and I don’t really care which. Step 4 is easy. Punctuation? Spelling? Grammar? All good? Done. MSWord and spell check are a great help, but things will slip by. This step – for me – is almost unnecessary because I’m making an effort to proofread during the revising…
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