Reading Palms

Thursday, July 14th, 2011

A Guest Post by Diana Lee reprinted from Diana’s Words,26 May 2011     a man’s palm cool and firm as marble muscled mount of Venus carved for lips tongue teeth plain of Mars hollowed cradle for my cheek heart line furrowed deep crevasse of love Jupiter Saturn Apollo Mercury fingers, long and supple line […]

5 ways writing flash fiction can help you finish your novel

Thursday, April 28th, 2011

Guest Post by a.e.Tyree When a writing teacher first suggested I write Flash Fiction, I thought she was crazy. Write a complete story in under 1000 words with a compelling setting, interesting characters, a conflict and resolution. Impossible! But when she explained some of the ways it could help me complete my current novel, I […]

reticulating swarms

Thursday, April 21st, 2011

A Guest Post by James Whitaker doesn’t say he loves you till you’re half over the fence then he whispers softly in your ear but you don’t trust the intent the cycle repeats broken resolutions digging down deep blunting your expectations with every promise he can’t keep and you struggle trying to reconcile how love […]

The Wife Returns – a story of literary polygamy

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

Guest Post by William H. Johnson In January 2010, I wrote a blog post called Back Pocket Mistress – story of literary infidelity. It was about how, after a turbulent love affair riddled with differences that seem irreconcilable, I abandoned a long time story of passion for another. The mistress, as I called her, The Dark […]

Living To Write

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

Guest Post by Anne Stormont Like Cathryn, and many of you who read her blog, I too am a writer. I don’t earn my living by writing, but I am a writer. I’m a fifty-something Scot living in Skye. I’ve been married for over thirty years and have two grown up children. I’ve worked as […]

Inspiration’s Mystery

Thursday, March 24th, 2011

Guest Post by Kathryn Magendie Every year the butterflies come. The very first time I saw them, I thought something was wrong, that somehow the butterflies were disoriented and ended up at the bottom of our gravel driveway by accident. But then, the next year they were back, and the next, and next. From what I […]

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