Celestial Chicken Blog

This is the final piece of this story. It totaled out at about 10K words. Enjoy!
She had been trying not to look at him. Trying not to let him get to her. But it was like being trapped; his very real flesh and blood form in front of her, and his [...]

Second part of the story. Enjoy!!
It rained all night. It was raining when Lily woke up at 8 a.m. She snuggled into the quilts on the bed, hearing the rain softly on the roof, seeing the gloomy, foggy trees outside of her window. The painting whispered at her, and she could hear it [...]

Okay, I didn’t like the first person angle of this story. Too hard for me to write. I need multiple perspectives in a decent story, not to mention things happening outside of “I did this,” and “I did that.” Yuck. Not my thing. So I re-wrote to go into third [...]

I’m going to post my writing for this prompt over the next few days (as I write it). Comments encouraged!! This was the prompt: Finish the story. Start with: “The first time I saw him, he was digging ketchup out of a bottle with a knife…”
The first time I saw him, [...]

Tonight is our Nano Creative Night at the local Sunset Hills Borders Books. We have consistently had a group of 4 or 5 each time. I look forward to it, because I’m a social beast to begin with, but it’s just about the only time I get to see Lillers, too. And I get to [...]

Today’s Write-Brain writing prompt is the following: Catch Up One Finish the story. Start with: “The first time I saw him, he was digging ketchup out of a bottle with a knife…” Being a romance writer, I think I should take this one on, and write a nice little short story about it. [...]

Wednesday, the library on my campus is opening a display of published works from faculty and staff. That includes me! They have my picture in a display case along with a copy of my novel Second Chances, which is, of course, available on Lulu.com!

Second Chances was my first NaNo novel, written in 2003, and [...]

My friend LR has this book, and brought it to our last creative night.  It has 365 writing exercises in it, one for each day of the year.  Now I don’t really have time to do a writing exercise every day or I won’t have time to work on my novel(s), but doing one once [...]