Ok kids, if you didn’t get involved with this last summer, now’s your chance to get in on the fun. Here’s the deal: 1. The trick is to write 1,500 words a day for 30 days for a combined total of 45,000 words. 2. You don’t have to work on one item during that time. … More Announcing the 2011 30-day Summer Writing Challenge
This is my third NaNoWriMo…or at least it’s supposed to be. I’m having second thoughts. I really want to do it; I really need to do it. I have encouraged others to do it. But I don’t know what I would write. And there’s the other small problem of being overwhelmed at work. Oh, sure, … More Three days…and I haven’t a clue
I am just about as busy as I have ever been. Teaching two classes, editing an online newspaper and an alumni magazine, serving as University webmaster, and now expected to conduct writing workshops at academies as recruitment trips. I long for the days when all I had to do was teach four classes. Was there … More Not for the faint of heart? More like, not for the sane.
So National Novel Writing Month is entering its second week, and I am behind schedule. What, me worry? Not anymore. I toughed it out today and got within a couple a thou words of where I am supposed to be. Not sure of the quality of the writing, but hey. What can you expect? I … More The behinder I get, the hurrieder I go
He wasn’t the biggest man that Tom Horn had ever seen. Heaven knows; Tiny Angulfssen back in Saint Louis stood a hair’s breath short of seven feet and had shoulders like a Brahma bull. He once carried two full grown women, one on each shoulder. Of course, a lump of lead smaller than the … More “Vaya con Dios, Pancho Villa”
The Great Adventure 