From what I’ve been told, because I know nothing about it first hand, the road to publishing a book includes many little trips along the way. One of those trips is getting smaller things published, like short stories. I haven’t tried that option yet, although I plan to. Here’s one place for such a step:…
I’m not a rule breaker, but I am a rule-find-a-way-arounder. The 100-word writing challenge from Madison Woods isn’t supposed to be submitted until Friday on her website, but that doesn’t mean I can’t post mine on Thursday here on my blog. I had a lot of positive reactions last week, and I gained a bunch…
“Just ignore him, Bill. Let him pass.” Every week, The New Yorker magazine has an excellent caption contest. You create an online account, and then you freely go to the link and submit your caption. After about a week, there’s a vote among the top three captions, according to people at the magazine with no sense…
Of all the screw ups, errors, epic fails, and just plain f**k ups in all of sports, one of the most remembered is Bill Buckner’s error at first base that gave Game 6 of the 1986 World Series to the New York Mets instead of the Boston Red Sox. I don’t need to bore…
I’ve been playing golf for about 25 years but not consistently. The only reason I started playing was to get someone else – a golfer – to agree to occasionally play tennis with me. Seemed a fair trade, except that tennis only costs about $3 for a can of tennis balls, while golf costs anywhere…
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every friday, http://madisonwoods.wordpress.com/ posts a picture prompt to challenge writers to create a 100-word “story.” i’m going to try to keep up with this, as should you. after you post your story, you go to her page and paste a link to your post in the comment box for that week’s picture. give it a shot. what…
Originally posted on The Blissful Adventurer:
The Soon-to-be Famous Kate and Maya (by Rich) Rich, the anti-eponymous author of the wildly popular blog brainsorts expressed to me after my stats complaining post the other day that he would gladly take credit for putting my blog on the map and being the supporter that would get me eventually…
i’ll always be amazed when someone cares what i have to say.
i was on another blog site, http://kellieelmore.com/, and saw a picture prompt inviting people to make up a story. so i did. here’s the picture, a book cover, and my story… Two children hid in the tall grass behind a very old house as an elderly couple slowly managed the front steps and shuffled to…
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