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Versatile Award Nomination

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Oh my gosh! I was just nominated for an award by Simply Marquessa! It’s called the Versatile award. Where are these awards found, anyways? I still have yet to discover their hiding place. Perhaps if I put on my old Nancy Drew Coat and hold up my magnifying glass when I search around WordPress, it will help. Folks can read Simply Marquessa’s wonderful blog by clicking the link in this sentence. To vie for this prestigious award, (I’m pressuming it’s prestigious, I’ve never heard of it before, but it does sound fitting, doesn’t it,) I’m required to do a few … Continue reading Versatile Award Nomination

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Writing 101: Day 14: Dear Spook

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Day 14: Today’s Prompt: Pick up the nearest book and flip to page 29. What’s the first word that jumps off the page? Use this word as your springboard for inspiration. Today’s twist: write the post in the form of a letter. Well, the book that was handy was an old, I mean vintage, Louis L’Amour book titled Chancy. I love Lois. On page 29, it was hard to find the page numbers since all of them were way up in the center next to the binding, was a sentence: “I’ll spook their horses.” Now which word would have jumped … Continue reading Writing 101: Day 14: Dear Spook

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Writing 101: Day 11

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Day Eleven: Size Matters (In Sentences) The assignment is to write sentences that vary in their length. Today’s Prompt: Where did you live when you were 12 years old? Ollie Ollie Um Comefree By Lenee Cobb We’d moved from one dead-end road in Lakewood to another, in a new school district. I was the outsider. Again. This was an old neighborhood, a neighborhood that every one of the neighborhood children was born into—except me—us—my little brothers and I. Our house, which was located near the cul-de-sac, was painted a pale green, a green similar to an unripe apple, a color … Continue reading Writing 101: Day 11