Category Archives: WRITING

Just had this image, as I look within myself and see me as part of you all. A webring—not officially so titled, but looking like a giant glowing neon popcorn necklace in the blackness of the cosmos. We float gently … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Today I started these entries in a new document in Word, as I’ve been doing now for the past couple months to separate the months’entries and make it easier to type right in without scrolling all the way to the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Bolt of lightening time! I got striketh by the apparent contradiction to my former beliefs (strong, firmly held ones, now laying shattered and messy on the rug) that experience more than practice equals progress. I used to say that I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m getting excited about the upcoming first meeting of our new writing group, Narratives in mid-February. It’s an eclectic group that hasn’t met face-to-face as yet, but we have all, I believe, some ties to the community college and the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I am Woman! Hear me mewl. Up and down and up and down: Whoever coined the phrase that life is like a roller-coaster ride must surely have been a Scorpio on the astrological chart of life. Like me. Thoughts today … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Not wanting to tie up space in Spinning, but justification is not needed In Talespinning for its purpose there is practice, I lead you (if you are of the mind) to a show of effort in “My Refrigerator.” Please bear … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Another long-drive-thought I had, wrote down, can read and remember is the word, “friggin.” (Yes, that right, and I can say it here because weblogs are lightyears ahead of TV on what’s allowed under censorship, and friggin’s rather tame compared … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Ahh, so this explains it: In my post on creative fantasy which I somehow managed to turn into a discourse on sexual fantasy figures (just scroll down and stop at Willie) I wandered off the old trail and got into … Continue reading →

There is an excellent article by Joe Clifford Faust on his website The Word Foundry about the rather limited number of situations available as plot material for an author. Joe covers this often cloudy area of “stolen ideas” in a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

And this evil little thought keeps me from working on my Spanish, and I think I’ll dedicate it to Prof. Michael Arnzen at Gorelets for turning me on to Queasy Pops: “I don’t think I’ll be going to Hannibal’s for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Uh, in sending everyone around to read all the writers’sites I link herein, I realize that practically in the same post, as well as throughout Spinning you’ll find evidence of its author’s often unstable, neurotic, obsessive/compulsive, and generally all-around flakey … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m still finagling with the logo for the Fiction Webring, but please do check it out at the bottom of the right-hand column, and click on lists. There are some excellent writers in this group, and I’ll eventually learn how … Continue reading → Continue reading →