As you all know by now, I went to Supercon this past weekend. Despite the crowds and spending eight hours on my feet, I really enjoyed it. I brought cash with me in case there was something in the vendor area I couldn't live without, and as it turns out there was ( Read more... )

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Hats off to Kathy [darlinleo], Lost & Found was an excellent prompt. I’m really looking forward to seeing where our writers took it. The voting is open until Friday, July 3rd until 11:45pm EDT. You can vote for however many stories you like, though the goal is a single winner. Be sure share some #commentlove. Feel free to invite your readerly ( Read more... )

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Hello, my fiery friends!  Happy Friday!! I hope you have wonderful plans for the weekend.  I will be in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York at The Natural Stone Bridge and Caves.  My husband and I have been visiting this place at least once a year since we were married - which is 25 years.  It is beautiful, and is one of the places in the ( Read more... )

Did you know the 5-word story game has a legitimate origin? Well, I did not. According to Wikipedia, the exercise to which we are accustomed is grandfathered by a game called “The Exquisite Corpse“. The article describes it as “a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition in ( Read more... )

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Writing Humor Series:
Subject - Christiana Ellis

Is it Monday again? It seems as though a great deal of time has passed. For one thing, you may have noticed the format has changed somewhat in the last week. Today we bid farewell to ‘Manic Monday’, ushering in a new future for the beginning of your week. Stay tuned! But today, the topic is change, primarily that of scenery.

There are many kinds of ( Read more... )

Hello, my friends of fire.  I cannot say “good morning” because I ran out of that.  I lost a day, and thought this was Thursday, then realized it is NOT Thursday, it is indeed Friday.  I hope this will be worth the wait ( Read more... )

We all have that one person in life who inspires us in a very particular way. Or maybe we have one person for each way we need to be inspired. Regardless of how many inspirational people I've been blessed with, there is one who stands out as being my inspiration to become funny ( Read more... )