• Friday Fiction

    Friday Fiction: Flash Fiction #2

    Having finished a first draft of my middle-grade novel, I am awaiting editing comments from a beta reader.  I’m not ready to delve into another large project, but I do enjoy continuing to write fiction.  Thankfully, there are some great…

  • Wednesday Words

    Wednesday Words: Tom Swifties

    The First Tom Swift Book Thanks to David Lubar and his book Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie, I discovered a couple of years ago the fun of making up Tom Swifties. Tom Swift was a character from a book series published…

  • Friday Fiction

    Friday Fiction: You’re So Vein

    I am not a vampire expert, but I feel reasonably well-versed on the literary phenomenon of blood-suckers and eternity seekers.  It began with a late Saturday night reading of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, which my college roommate interrupted by coming home…

  • Wednesday Words

    Wednesday Words: Talking Texan

    In a prior post, I said that I enjoy mimicking accents, though I am not fluent in any foreign languages.  But I should qualify that some people think my native tongue of Texan is a foreign language.  In fact, an…

  • Monday Musings

    Monday Musings: The Best Sport

    If I had to write a personal ad, it might look something like this: Young-ish, attractive (enough) female seeks tall, broad-shouldered, thin, dark-haired male to provide intellectual companionship, enough financial security so that she can keep writing and raising her…