Tag: No AI

Book-in-Progress Update

I am done with draft four! I’ve actually been done with it for a couple of weeks. I have sent the draft to a few friends to beta read for me and I’m waiting anxiously for feedback. The plan, once I receive all of their feedback here in the next few weeks, is to edit

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Writing Group: Screenplay Part I

This is weeks late. I’ve been busy. This prompt is a bit of an attempt at writing a screenplay. Fun fact: from the research I did before this prompt, there are no hard and fast rules for writing a screenplay. Part one of our screenplay prompts was just to set the scene. Dialogue will be

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Writing Club: 2nd Person

The prompt for this week was to write in 2nd person. While this was a difficult prompt, there were some fantastic pieces. My favorite might be the one where a club member wrote a choose your own adventure that needed crowd participation. Top tier writing and presentation. Second person generally serves one of two purposes:

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Kansas: Fort Larned National Historic Site

While working on a different Kansas post from earlier this year, I realized that I didn’t actually post about visiting Fort Larned National Historic Site in late 2025. I am going to fix that now. Both of these sites are free to visit and are worth the time. Pawnee Rock State Historic Site Before we

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Arkansas: Riding the Ozark Mountains

If you remember, late last year we went to Utah for some fantastic trail riding. This year my sister and I took a shorter, but no less beautiful trip to the Arkansas Ozarks with the mules. We stayed at the Boston Mountain Foxtrotters and Horse Camp. The horse camp is nothing fancy, it is a

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Writing Club: Writing to an Advice Column

This deep dive into newspapers started with something fun: writing into an advice column. I want to note that while I am advocating for newspaper style the subject matter can be anything from real to fantasy to sci-fi. My question is actually one I have been asking lately – not for a thesis – but

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