Once Upon a Time & Happily Ever After
Rediscovering Life after Retirement
Dearest Readers and Writers, thank you for stopping by for this month’s It’s Snowing: Short Story Prompt 7.2020. For this post, I am linking up with Dee at Grammy’s Grid for her 21st Short Story Prompt and link up party. As Dee explains, “this is a creative writing exercise for fun and without a lot […]
Dearest readers and writers, welcome to Creative Writing 6.2020. As I said before, that title sounds like the name of a community college personal enrichment course. For this post, I am finally – happily – linking up with Dee at Grammy’s Grid for her sixth Short Story Prompt of the year. As Dee explains, “this […]
Dearest Readers and Writers, welcome to Creative Writing 1.2020. Sounds like the title of a college personal enrichment course. For this post, I am linking up with Dee at Grammy’s Grid for her first Short Story Prompt of the new year. As Dee explains, “this is a creative writing exercise for fun and without […]
Dearest writers and readers, Joining Dee at Grammy’s Grid for another short story prompt link party with my story entitled “Detente.” Unlike previous prompts, the prompt for November was this photograph below. Upon seeing the image, I had a dozen story ideas dancing around in my head but settled on this piece of almost fiction. These […]
Dearest Writers and Readers, Joining Dee at Grammy’s Grid for another short story prompt link party. This is the sixth time I have participated, de ja vu over again. You can read my last story here, if you like. These opportunities for creative writing are so enjoyable to me, partially because I don’t tend to overthink […]
Sweet Readers and Writers, Joining the fun of another of Dee’s short story prompt link parties on her blog, Grammy’s Grid. When I first read the prompt: Just as she thought nothing else could go wrong, the doorbell… I imagined the Publisher’s Clearing House gang being on the other side of the door. But […]