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Creativity For The Fun Of It!

I have begun so many blog posts lately only to feel uninspired and forced, like it was pure drudgery. After starting yet another one this morning, I gave up and asked myself, how can I make this fun for me? Then I heard cheers of laughter from next door. I went out to witness theContinue reading “Creativity For The Fun Of It!”

#pessimisticmoustache Santa Edition

We all know how to describe this guy, right? Let’s see, jolly, old, rosy cheeks, twinkling eyes. You get the picture. He’s one big descriptive cliché. But this December, I think we can fix that with a game of Pessimistic Moustache, a fun word game I made up to generate unique descriptions. I did aContinue reading “#pessimisticmoustache Santa Edition”

Great News! The new Gator McBumpypants adventure is now available!

Treat the children in your life to the newest Gator McBumpypants adventure Gator McBumpypants Doesn’t Say Goodbye. In this (the fourth) Gator McBumpypants picture book, Dee Dee invites Gator McBumpypants and Herman on a grand adventure. They spend a wonderful day exploring, but Dee Dee hasn’t only planned a day of fun. She has somethingContinue reading “Great News! The new Gator McBumpypants adventure is now available!”

Name this turtle and get your name in the next Gator McBumpypants book!

Creation makes its own calendar I thought I was way ahead of the game. I had big plans and was gonna do it right this year. I mean, I have experience. I have my online presence set up. I filled in my Google calendar. I had a marketing plan. Everything I had done would makeContinue reading “Name this turtle and get your name in the next Gator McBumpypants book!”

A Quick #Movember Update and a game of #pessimisticmoustache

To raise money for Prostate Cancer Research, people all over the world are growing mustaches this month. If you haven’t seen Adam Garone (the founder of Movember)’s Ted Talk, I recommend watching it. It’s a fun story. To create Movember awareness, Diana Rose Wilson and I have turned my game Pessimistic Moustache into a twitterContinue reading “A Quick #Movember Update and a game of #pessimisticmoustache”

Throwing Stones: I made my #NaNoWriMo Cover

THROWING STONES: Tshepo Mwendi blames fire fighters for the loss of his parents and his home. His grief, turned anger, fuels his singular mission: to make fire fighters suffer as he has by showing the world they are inept (thus taking away their funding leading to their non-existence). To achieve his goal he throws stonesContinue reading “Throwing Stones: I made my #NaNoWriMo Cover”

Happy Halloween!

This is the first year Gator McBumpypants and his friends decided to get dressed up for Halloween. You can tell it was all Dee Dee’s idea, but I think Herman’s going to have the most fun. This year’s jack-o-lantern won “Best in Show” and “Most Creative” at the annual pumpkin carving party. I won thisContinue reading “Happy Halloween!”

Author Interview with Diana Rose Wilson – November: It’s not just #NaNoWriMo. Don’t forget #Movember.

Last month, author Diana Rose Wilson shared her great writing tips and tricks in her guest post Be Outrageous! Now, just in time for her favorite holiday, Halloween, she has agreed to answer my questions about her writing, her websites and her love of mustaches. We met at the Pacific Northwest Writer’s Conference (#PNWC16), soContinue reading “Author Interview with Diana Rose Wilson – November: It’s not just #NaNoWriMo. Don’t forget #Movember.”

Beware The Creeping Nouns

I am reading A Writer’s Coach: The Complete Guide to Writing Strategies That Work by Jack Hart. Though it is geared toward journalism, the information is useful and inspiring for my fiction. One sign of a skilled writer is avoiding redundancy. Mr. Hart uses the analogy of felling a tree. The skilled woodsman takes efficientContinue reading “Beware The Creeping Nouns”

#NaNoPrep – Tips and Tricks

Last year was my first November observing National Novel Writing Month. I had an idea for a novel and had done some research on my topic, but didn’t prepare other than that. I won, but it was really hard and came right down to the wire. If you’re still not sure if NaNoWriMo is rightContinue reading “#NaNoPrep – Tips and Tricks”