The goodness of a teeny tiny beating heart
This teeny tiny heart beats and I am pleased beyond measure with this treasure…
My pledge to start smoking
…should I stick to my uniquely crafted Great American Smokeout pledge, there is no doubt that soon I will be smoking…
Coming Full Circle in the Square
…when the day came to kiss his little forehead and gaze into his trusting hazel eyes one last time before planes, trains and old technology separated us, I almost changed my mind.
Identifying the muse at table 12
It is dinner time and the place is packed, mostly with tourists I would guess, drawn in by the sign at the entrance proclaiming “Birthplace of Harry Potter.”
Accomplished well before midnight
Writing live from a Panera Bread in Aurora on the 31st day of March, it's Lisa Marlin. This is my last chance to get a fourth post in before the stroke of midnight -- a March challenge from two other creative sorts. That's seven hours away, but I've got a few things...
Throwaway notes, forever hugs
…the napkin note is not forbidden. It has long been a secret passage into my children’s hearts.
Why writers should live in messy houses
…between paragraphs, I am changing out loads of laundry, taking the dog for a walk and making a shopping list…
First draft and second guesses
That last sentence took me an hour and 23 minutes to write and rewrite. Will I keep it? Maybe. Maybe not. Noted in margin: fix this.
The End = Edit
“I could see the end, but I couldn’t force them [my characters] there. They had to work it out. And, finally, they did.”
