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: 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: 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…
Wednesday Words: Idioms, in a Nutshell
My son begs over and over to do something that I have repeatedly explained is SO NOT going to happen. Still, he’s in my face with the persistence of a severe case of hiccups and reasoning he’s spent more time…
Bonus Post: Flash Fiction
Flash Fiction is a style of writing for extreme brevity. I found a great Flash Fiction challenge posted by fellow author Haley Whitehall. Here are the rules of the challenge, with a May 1 deadline: You must start your story…
Wednesday Words: Should You Correct Friends?
My feet shuffle across the hard floor, as chairs creak and a cough echoes in the half-empty room. I clear my throat, lean over to the microphone on its rickety stand, and announce: “My name is Julie, and I am…
Monday Musings: Dental Discomfort
I have a friend who enjoys going to the dentist. She likes the feeling of having her teeth cleaned and walking out of the office all fresh-mouthed and white-toothed. I can hardly believe that we are in the same species.…
It Begins with a Hurricane
While 104 mile-per-hour winds rattled and ripped apart our roof and rain swirled and surged into our dining room, we slept soundlessly on the brass bed of a relative’s home. Hurricane Ike was assaulting the shores of Southeast Texas, and…
The Write Challenge
Tooling around on Twitter, I linked over to the Round of Words in 80 Days challenge through another writer. Aha! I thought. This is just what I need. After spending the last few weeks toting my car from one shop…
Julie Glover, Word Lover
I LOVE words! I don’t necessarily mean that I enjoy talking. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don’t. But I love the sumptuousness of language. I relish words, lyrics, accents, sarcasm, idioms, proverbs, and all things language–even punctuation and grammar. Some…