Category Archives: Musings

Wow, has a lot been going on in my virtual life (regular life pretty regular, which is good!)

I’ve joined another online writers group (in addition to Liberty Hall), LiveJournal, and Google+  . More on all of these in a later post.

Still writing flash stories every weekend at Liberty Hall – getting close to my goal of a flash a week for a full year.  I have been in all but one challenge since August 23, 2010.  (I’m very impressed with myself.)

Currently have three things out – yay me!  It is still SO difficult for me to press the submit button.  I keep tweaking and polishing, then setting a piece aside, only to pick it up for tweaking a few weeks later.  Of course, many of my pieces are the Liberty Hall flash ones that really do need work – it isn’t possible to create a publishable story in 90 minutes, which is all the time we get.

I’m working on a short story for a setting contest – another participant gave me a very interesting setting.  And the story should NOT be a flash.  So this is good.

I’ve also picked up my unfinished YA novel, which now I see is really geared to much younger kids.  I dinked around with it a bit, thinking that perhaps it might be fixable – we’ll see.  I plan to enter part of it in the next Liberty Hall short story challenge.

This weekend’s flash prompt was “a red moon.”

I’ve been thinking about the Angel of Grief (see the statue’s photo here)

I’ve been mulling a story idea where an alien culture comes to take feelings and memories from humans, it is forced, somehow.  I had a vision of an egg, pearlescent walls, the humans forced to emote & give to the walls.

I put it together into a 750 word story just now, almost took the whole 90 minutes. 

We’ll see if anyone likes it over at Liberty Hall!