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Challenge Answered

Today, Linda Wells posted her short story in our short story challenge. She did a wonderful job, as I fully expected, You can find “Scarred” at AU in the fiction section and at AHA in their original works forum. I think everyone who reads this post is familiar enough with the initials to figure out [...]

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In the Hall of the Elders

Yay! Done! New story! First of all, the story is password protected. Just use the first three words of the title, case sensitive.
Second, let me explain about the story. I’ll copy the gist of what I will post at the other sites where this will go.

Last year while Linda Wells, a.k.a. booknut was posting [...]

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Drumroll please!

Just wanted to let you know that I anticipate posting a new short story in the next day or three. It is with the final, final pair of eyes and I expect that they will be done with it soon. The project is the one previewed a view posts down, In the Hall of the [...]

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The year is half over

Well, I’ve certainly had a productive June writing. NOT! I was hoping I would do better this summer but it seems as though I am destined to read more than write during these hot months. However, I did send off an entire short story - In the Hall of the Elders - to my first [...]

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Mid-June Update

Hello folks. I thought you might like to hear about my writing progress. In a word, it’s been slow. We are in the middle of VBS and then there is my son who is getting ready for Music Camp auditions and had a recital. His birthday is fast approaching and he’s been on a crusade [...]

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You can delay your nagging for now

Alrighty peeps! I’m ready to unleash my latest writing venture. The story is called “Once…” and it is a fairy tale. You will have to enter a password and the password is the story title (don’t forget the ellipsis!) This is a different password than for my JAFF. Debbie S has done the initial edit [...]

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Warning: rant…

Without going into much detail, I’m totally frustrated right now. While there are a ton of lawyer jokes out there, and I am one to get a laugh out of them, there are times when a lawyer is needed. My family is at one of those points. Unfortunately, it should never have come to this, [...]

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We have a title!

I’ve decided on a title for the new story I was supposed to post starting today. Its called “Once…” and I’ve created a new story page. You’ll see that I am password protecting the chapters, but that I’ve told you what that password is (indirectly) and that it is different for this story than for [...]

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Tick, Tick, Tick …

Yes, I know that I said I hoped to have a new story up and posting by June 1st. I’ve written the first 3 chapters of the fairy tale I said I was working on. Now I need to get my butt in gear and get some editing done so I can get it out [...]

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Progress

I started writing yesterday. By the time I finished chapter 1, I had 2200 words. Hey, its a start. I’m working on an original short (I hope!) story. It begins…

“Once upon a time there lived a young princess. Her name was Grace and she was as fair of face as she was of character. In [...]

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