My goal for the 2017 Clarion Write-a-Thon is to write 50 stories in six weeks. I’ll keep track here and on twitter. My previous post has a list of rewards I’m offering if you donate to my cause! Progress: Day One: 1. “Saving Big Daddy” re-write horror story 2. “Ghost Read more…
Procrastitron is an Autobot… we think? She’s never bothered to paint her allegiance logo. But she hangs out with the Autobots. Probably because, you know, the Decepticons would kick her out for not doing stuff. Procrastitron is not badly-drawn! Procrastitron is thematic in her simplicity. By the way, those colored Read more…
At the last second, my husband convinced me to join the Cleveland Game Developers local game jam this past weekend. I know! I’m doing a write-a-thon, I’m revising a novel… do I really need to sign away my weekend to writing a video game? Well, I kinda did. Friday night, Read more…
This is the official post of the methodology for my Write-a-Thon Sweater give away. Prize: One hand-knit sweater made by me, for you, in your choice of color and style. (Within reason.) To enter: Donate at least $20 to the Clarion Write-A-Thon on my page and give your name when Read more…
It annoys me when people say “you have to believe in yourself!” Do you? Do you really? I think of the people I’ve met who really believed in themselves. There’d be one in every writing class. They’d submit some unreadable, meandering block of prose with no plot, no characters, and Read more…
Well, I did it! I wrote 50 new short story drafts in 42 days. I started strong, zipping out some flashy flash pieces, and I slogged and hit writer’s block and I did sorta take four days out to revise a novel because that’s the kind of crazy I am. Read more…
Every time I walk to Little Italy for lunch, I pass a silent act of violence. It’s a mural painted in 1996 by the CWRU Art Education department. Typical of your community project murals, it is an amalgam of images from the neighborhood, representing different businesses and organizations in the Read more…