A great bunch of links. Really helpful.
My thanks to author Amy Reade for telling me about this article
To get all the lowdown and links, click on the photo of Author Jane Friedman or link below:
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Monthly Archives: October 2015
The Socerer’s Garden #Free on #Kindle
D. Wallace Peach’s books take you to other fascinating worlds.
THE DAM
Photo Copyright: Dale Rogerson
Here we are for another week. This week, we’re gathered high in the virtual mountains near a virtual dam. Our guide and hostess for this trip and gathering is the gracious and talented artist and author, Rocehlle Wisoff-Fields. We’re the Friday Fictioneers, and the challenge for each of us in the group is to write an original story with no more than 100 words. It’s supposed to have a beginning, middle, end, and follow the picture prompt provided for the week. This week’s prompt was provided by Dale Rogerson. Thanks, Dale.
To read the other stories from group members, just click on the link given below, then on the little blue frog in the blue box. The link for the other stories this week is as follows:
https://rochellewisofffields.wordpress.com/2015/10/28/30-october-2015/
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Word Count: 100 Words
THE DAM by P.S. Joshi
We lived in a beautiful valley in the mountains. A clean stream flowed through it. Our ancestors lived there many years before us, and built our homes.
One day important men came and told us a dam was needed. They said they wanted our valley, and would give us other good land to live on and farm.
Our valley and village are now far under water. We are living in a new village built by us. The land is not good for farming.
Water from the dam is sent by pipes to the city.
No one can help us now.
10 Bits of Wisdom I Learned From a Computer
Great ideas given with humor.
Life is hard, but help is all around us. The trick is to take your learning where you can find it. In my case, as a technology teacher, it‘s from computers. Here are ten lessons I learned from my computer. The first four, I’ve shared before. The last six I’ve experienced first hand over the past year. See which you relate to:
#1: Know when your RAM is full
RAM is Random Access Memory. In the computer world, it controls how much you can work on at any given moment. If you exceed your computer‘s RAM, it won’t be able to remember anything else (computer programs stall or stop). Humans have a mental workspace–like a desktop–that controls how much we keep in our thoughts before it is shuffled off to long- and short-term memory. For people with eidetic memories, it‘s very large. For most of us, size is controlled by:
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VULTURE SQUAD
Photo Copyright: Barbara W. Beacham
This is my contribution this week to Monday’s Finish the Story, hosted by Barbara W. Beacham. Every Monday, Barbara supplies a new picture prompt along with the first sentence for the story. The original story to be written should have only 100 to 150 additional words. I’ve bolded the first sentence given with the picture prompt.
I was happy to hear your health is improving, Barbara. I’m sure we all hope you heal completely.
To read the other stories written by group members, be sure to click first on the link given below, then on the little blue frog in the blue box. The link for all other stories is as follows:
https://mondaysfinishthestory.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/mondays-finish-the-story-october-26th-2015/
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Word Count: 2+17+150=169 Words
VULTURE SQUAD by P.S. Joshi
I watched the vulture looking at me hungrily as I lay on the ground bleeding and injured.
A man came and stood over me. I then noticed the leather band on the ankle of the bird.
“Well, Vulcan,” he said to the vulture, “I see you found another unlucky victim of the Black Riders.”
He next talked to me as he checked for injuries.
“They musta’ taken you fer dead son. Sometimes seein’ Vulcan is enough. You’re lucky we was scoutin’ this area of the hills. These hills are the huntin’ grounds of a dirty bunch of killers, thieves.
You’ve stopped bleedin’. Your breathin’ is okay. No ribs broke. There’s that bullet hole in your left shoulder. Your right arm and leg’s broke. You fall off a horse?”
“Yeah, they took it.”
“Figures. They musta’ been in a hurry to leave or they’d checked to see if you was still alive.
The rest of the Vulture Squad’ll find ’em. I got to get you back to our camp.”
Mirror of Truth — Features from Atonement, TN
This is interesting. Teagan has created a whole town.
Welcome back to Atonement, TN!
Annie’s Antiques
Yes, this is my warped idea of taking a break — still making a weekly blog post. However, the interactive serial stories really are much more labor intensive than these posts. I actually am getting some writing done on Atonement in Bloom, my main novel in progress!
Update — Writing Process and Progress
Previously I said I realized that I needed to divide and move around my chapter length magical prologue. As “Racine” might say, Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit! Did that ever make a lot of work. I’m happy to say that things are moving and shaking to my satisfaction. I expect to finish that work this weekend.
During that moving-around last weekend I wrote some new material. I didn’t think it was much though, until I went back to check. In addition to that arduous editing, I wrote…
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A Geyser in Nevada…
Stunning sight.
Christmas Grotto 2015 – Books – Sunwielder by D. Wallace Peach.
This is a great review of Diana’s work with links to buying her books.
FREEDOM
Photo Copyright: Ron Pruitt
Here we are again. This week we’re gathered at a virtual city bus station. Our hostess for this virtual gathering in the gracious and talented artist and author, Rochelle Wisoff-Fields. We’re the Friday Fictioneers, and Rochelle is starting her fourth, hard-working year as hostess of this group. The challenge for each of us in the group this week is to write an original story with not more than 100 words. It’s supposed to have a beginning, middle, end, and follow the picture prompt provided for the week. This week’s prompt is a repeat, and was provided several years ago by Ron Pruitt. Thanks, Ron.
To read the other stories from group members, just click on the link for the other stories given below, then on the little blue frog in the blue box. The link for the other stories this week is as follows.
https://rochellewisofffields.wordpress.com/2015/10/21/23-october-2015.
Genre: Realistic Fiction
Word Count: 100 Words
FREEDOM by P.S. Joshi
They got on the bus and found seats near the back.
It was the first time they’d traveled alone without a parent. Allowances had been saved for weeks for their trip to Centerville and back.
Their mothers thought they were at a school friend’s house. What an adventure, age thirteen and lunch and shopping on their own.
When they arrived, they chose a restaurant. They then ate until they felt stuffed.
After they paid for the meal, they had twenty cents left.
“Oh well,” said Lucy, “we’ll shop another time.”
Doris agreed.
Somehow, they could never save that much again.
Words that describe someone’s voice…Infographic…
Great infographic!
Musings on Life & Experience 