The first four pages, 2,455 words. Later, I added 213 words, which put me at 2,668 words for the first day. A solid start. I’m a little concerned, though. I planned out 20 chapters. The writing today put me at the end of Chapter Two. Obviously more fleshing out is going to be necessary as …
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I was out of sorts. My novel completed, out seeking a partner to bring it to readers. Tightening and polishing rejected short stories. Planning my next novel, its first draft to be typewritten during November’s National Novel Writing Month. Falling behind in my reading. Seeing my work through a new writers groups’ eyes. It felt …
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The Word of the Day is “Trust” was my short story which won the 2009 Michigan Bar Journal Short Story Contest. It has since been published in Written in the Mitten 2013: A Celebration of Michigan Writers (Heron Bay Books, 2013) and Legends: A Literary Journal from Grey Wolfe Publishing, Summer, 2013 (Grey Wolfe Publishing, …
This story was a finalist in the 2013 Michigan Bar Journal Short Story Contest, and was published in the Autumn, 2013 Legends: A Literary Journal from Grey Wolfe Publishing. Confession Trevor Aldabra sat in the court room at the defendant’s table, speculating about the chaos occurring behind its walls. His client was on trial for …
Remember these high school assignments: Write a 500-word essay on _____. The struggle. The agony. Five hundred words? How many pages is that? You’d write something, then count the words. Only three hundred and ten? How am I going to add another one hundred and ninety words to that? (Yes, I know. Today’s word processors …
The Saturday of Labor Day Weekend, I was involved in the first car accident since the State of Michigan granted me a driver’s license decades ago. Fortunately, no one was injured, other than our vehicles. My car was towed to the insurance-covered body shop for assessment. At first, I thought it was totaled. I could …
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