The PNWA writers' conference is coming up, and here's a draft of a pitch for novel number two, You Jane, first constructed in 2010's NaNoWriMo frenzy. I'm not sure I've got it right yet - tell me what you think: Jane’s a frustrated writer who’s been in love with her best friend Charlie since their … Continue reading You, Jane: The Pitch
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But your dog can fly you like a kite
These signs communicate the rules for Iron Horse State Park, which contains our little section of the John Wayne Trail. The haiku is this week's Project Create. No cars are allowed But your dog can fly you like A kite, if it sits.
People are always telling me the craziest things.
This is based on a piece I wrote with my writing group a while ago. It caught my eye when I found it again, and seemed right for this possibly false start of spring (sixty degrees Farenheit here in Ellensburg today...) and for week ten of Project Create (click here). People Are Always Telling Me... … Continue reading People are always telling me the craziest things.
A river flows
Project Create, Week 8: Here's a little meditation on time, rivers, and owls. I had intended to write about something completely different. I guess the owls had other ideas. A river of time A river flows, they say, so that you can never step in the same one twice. There is no way to know … Continue reading A river flows
Project create week 5…Sublime or ridiculous?
Here's a poem based on a prompt at my writing group in Seattle. The prompt was "from the sublime to the ridiculous." Many thanks, Nancy! 🙂 There's real Swiss dark chocolate. And then... there are M&M's. There's a pure white Lipizanner horse, dancing under a spotlight. And then... there's the farm mule hauling manure. There's … Continue reading Project create week 5…Sublime or ridiculous?
Project Create 2012 Week Two: It’s good to have tradition
And it's even better to have wonderful writers to inspire you. Click here to read this week's creation, with gratitude to the Seattle writing group of Treg, Heidi, and Nancy. Here's how it starts: It’s good to have tradition It’s good to have tradition She said to herself through gritted teeth As she pulled the … Continue reading Project Create 2012 Week Two: It’s good to have tradition
On Having No Voice
Here's a silly little poem inspired by my current lack of vocal capacity, brought on by either allergies, a cold, exposure to construction dust, or some infernal combination of them all. On Having No Voice How many times do we say We don’t know what to say The words simply don’t appear How many … Continue reading On Having No Voice
Creation: It’s contagious (Project Create)
It is, as a friend of mine said, contagious. This idea of committing to doing something crazy and wonderful, like writing fifty-thousand words of a novel in thirty days, or publishing a new demo song each week for a whole year, or walking a labyrinth at least once a day, or getting a short story … Continue reading Creation: It’s contagious (Project Create)
Follow Guinn’s Life and Death
I'm posting the NaNoWriMo story as I go, every other day or so. You can read along here. Dang, this is fun. November 8: Getting caught up - I posted another couple of episodes. I have some serious cleaning up to do of the sections I wrote in Ballard's Old Pequliar pub. (No further comment.) … Continue reading Follow Guinn’s Life and Death
Warning: NaNoWriMo Dead Ahead
National Novel Writing Month starts November 1. The commitment: write fifty-thousand words in thirty days. The insanity for which one should be committed: agreeing to write fifty-thousand words in thirty days. Last year's tale, You Jane, is coming down from this site's NaNoWriMo Story page on Sunday, October 23. The great empty space that will be … Continue reading Warning: NaNoWriMo Dead Ahead
Elizabeth Fountain, Author 