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Category Archives: Writing
Summer NaNo: Hold fast the dream (or here comes the hard part)
Haven’t written. Haven’t written in two days, no, three. The reasons are manifold, but they all come down to the same thing: I haven’t closed the door on the hurricane of worries that calls itself Real Life. I don’t have … Continue reading
Six Sentence Sunday, 10 June 2012 (Erika and the Vampire)
In the blue hour before full darkness and curfew, Annabelle and her current boyfriend and his friend walked along the path to the miniature golf course, under colored lights on strings like a Christmas-tree lot; the plaster creatures and landscape … Continue reading
Summer NaNo: A certain slant of light
It’s a perfect summer evening here, with the light just fading to red-gold and a breeze stirring the topmost tree-tops as the birds twitter in the branches. (No, unfortunately I’m not ornithologist enough to tell you what kind, but they … Continue reading
Summer NaNo: The time machine (a bit of research)
The Summer NaNo isn’t so much a novel as the groundwork for one, as I take the challenge of playing the 30-question character questionnaire against a plot skeleton. Today I’m to ask Leonie what she ate today, in great detail. … Continue reading
Six Sentence Sunday, 3 June 2012 (Erika and the Vampire)
“We saw it and then we got called away.” What she didn’t say: “You be careful. Night’s no time to be out.” Erika had overheard enough about those burnings, and they were girls her age, sometimes boys but more often … Continue reading
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Summer NaNo: Three magical moments
Writing is full of magical moments. I’m in the middle of several of them right now: the glamour of first draft, the rewards of beta-reading, and the lessons of prolific production. There’s the night before creation, when the story starts … Continue reading
Six Sentence Sunday, 27 May 2012 (The Reincarnations of Miss Anne)
And so in the fullness of time it came to pass that Elsa got her transport, thanks to the chatty young officer in charge of the deportations, and she got her pass to the Jewish quarter, and help with hauling … Continue reading
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Six Sentence Sunday, 20 May 2012 (The Reincarnations of Miss Anne)
Like this fellow, for example, the one to whom she owed nominal obedience as a soldier to his officer. Yes, she understood the necessity of obedience and discipline; she had been schooled in those notions since childhood, but now she … Continue reading
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Six Sentence Sunday, 13 May 2012 (The Reincarnations of Miss Anne)
And there was the other thing, as well. He had looked her up and down—well, not quite as blatantly as the soldiers eyeing up the Polish girls—with his pale blue eyes behind steel-rimmed spectacles, and asked in a light tone … Continue reading
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Flash fiction: It whirred and beeped and buzzed
Author’s note: In preparation for NaNoWriMo 2009, someone put up daily prompts on one of the forums. I did them in the spirit of warm-ups, but some of them turned into stories. Here is one such. Prompt: It whirred and beeped and … Continue reading
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