The Erma Bombeck Writer’s Workshop is coming up in April, and there are four scholarships available for writers who win their writing contest. I’d really like attend the workshop, so I set aside my fear of writing contests and entered this one, my first judged submission in three years. Linking it up with lovelinks, my…
Besides missing Ehren, who’s been gone eight days now, and being generally bummed about my employment situation, I’m blaming this current malaise on you. Well, I am if you’re completely happy with your life right now and offering those stupidly sunny Facebook updates. Not if you’re neither of those. I’ve become much better at accepting…
But then I took another sip of my coffee, and the feeling passed. My confidence as a short story writer took a knock-out punch about six years ago, and I never recovered. Tonight, sitting on my bed after a day of holiday shopping and while watching Care Bears to the Rescue, a few characters tried…
The writer Peter De Wolf has returned to free fringes with another writing prompt short story. His last prompt was fire ants, this one is partypoker because who doesn’t like a challenge? And a party? And poker? Thanks, Peter, for the guest gig. Come back anytime. Two dudes are hanging out in one of those…
Dunno. I tend to shy away from writing posts that will antagonize people intentionally. So even though I took issue with someone’s shortsightedness on Twitter, then wrote an entire blog post with my dissenting view, by the time I finished messing around with displaying the tweet first by defective WordPress plugin then by screenshot, I didn’t…
