Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
The theme for this week at writing group was cycles. I wrote about how celestial bodies were all interconnected. This poem was meant to be about constellations initially but it grew. I might actually workshop it a bit to clean it up and include some additional cycles like moon phases and potentially include additional constellations.
The prompt for this week was urban fantasy, with a twist. We had to write about someone in a seemingly regular profession and I selected chef. Urban Fantasy: is a subgenre of fantasy, placing supernatural elements in an approximation of a contemporary urban setting. The combination provides the writer with a platform for classic fantasy tropes, quixotic plot-elements, and unusual characters—without
Here is a little bit of a sneak-peek from our trip to Orcas Island earlier this summer. I will post more as I have time. Despite the time it takes to get there I would 100% go back in a heartbeat. Orcas is one of the San Juan Island. To get there: fly into Seattle,
Sorry for the temporary hiatus, I’ve been editing. If anyone has tips on how to find a literary agent or knows one, please feel free to send them my way. I have also been reading a lot and it has been a while since I have done a series review. The Maple Hills series is
The prompt for this week was doorways. There are many types of doorways. I choose to interpret a book cover as one such doorway in the below poem. Let me know what abstract ways you think about doorways. Happy reading. So many doors, so many pathsSo many possibilitiesHow to select a single oneA single door
The prompt this week was movement. This little poem is a moment that all pet owners can probably relates to, that moment when your pet gets ahold of something they probably should not eat. I hope you enjoy this bit of everyday chaos while I go crawl back into my editing hole. I see you
I haven’t been doing my normal book reviews for lots of reasons, mostly though because I have been writing and now editing. Seriously, getting that first draft done was not what I would call easy but editing is a whole different beast. That being said, this book I won through Goodreads and I got it
The North Texas Fair and Rodeo is currently going on and we got to go last weekend. Yes, it was hot but not was hot as last year. We had a ton of fun, Keltin took the camera to take some pictures of my sister who is a member of the Fairgrounders. This is a
The prompt for this week was write about a plague, a real one, a fictional one, not only COVID. I selected the dancing plague of 1518. The actual cause of this plague is unknown. There are theories that it was caused by a fungus or mass hysteria. I made the cause the Sidhe, the fair
In the interest of posting our film photos here are some we took at the Bluebonnet festival! This was one of those ridiculous days where we drove a long way (an hour one way) to see flowers and take pictures and it was worth it. I don’t know if this festival will be a yearly
McGee Travel Tales 