Ornery ramblings of a former political science professor turned author
My Week 45 prompt over at More Odds Than Ends came from Leigh Kimmel. I couldn't figure out a way to work it into Cursebreaker, so I came up with this. The prompt was: It was supposed to be a simple hard drive swap, in and out. When the tech opened the robot’s casing, what …
This is a very late response to Week 43 of More Odds Than Ends. It's been a strange couple weeks. Not really anything I can put my finger on, but I'm out of sorts. If pushed, yes, the election is having an effect. The continued restrictions on activities, and normal life continues to grate. That's …
I missed sending in a prompt for Week 42 at More Odds Than Ends, so I picked up one of the spares. The prompt I chose was: The architect who specialized in designing hidden rooms. I was looking for one that would allow me to easily insert it into the Cursebreaker story. I think I …
Right now, I haven't been doing much writing besides the prompts from More Odds Than Ends. But, that's still a good thing as I'm making progress on Cursebreaker (of a sort). Since today is Monday I am (once again) setting out a daily schedule for myself, and doing my damnedest to stick to it. I …
Week 39 at More Odds than Ends and we're on to Cursebreaker Part 18. Anne Guglik and I traded prompts this week. My prompt to her was: Half the story wrote itself...literally. Her prompt to me was: My hands felt sweaty on the steering wheel as I went hard into the turn. There was a …
Another week, another set of odd prompts. This is Week 37 for Odd Prompts and as always they are giving me the creative kick in the butt that I seem to need and a great way to stretch my writing muscles. I am having a lot of fun with this and the responses have been …
Week 36 of Odd prompts gave me more fodder for the ongoing Cursebreaker story. Taking my cue from Cedar Sanderson, for the last few weeks I've been trying to work each prompt into the story no matter what. I'm still planning on turning this into a book, and I expect to do a great deal …
Got some good writing done this week, including for the More Odds than Ends Week 35 prompt. My prompt this week came from Anne and Jim: She kept trying to send in her application, but they wouldn’t accept it. They kept saying her address was invalid. My prompt, The dragon floated on the inflatable raft …
Yesterday was the first day of classes. For the last 20 years, I would have been on campus in the midst of the frenetic hustle of lost freshmen, growing sophomores, confident juniors, and worried seniors. Today, a Tuesday, I would actually be standing in front of my first classes of the semester (I taught Tuesdays/Thursdays). …
It's been an off week or ten days. Not off in anything bad, just feeling off-kilter. Hubby went into the office for a couple of days last week for the first time since mid-March, which was weird in a "this is not our usual day" sort of way. I haven't made a lot of headway …
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