Down to the Wire

Hello all,

I’m coming to the end of my courses! Woo hoo!

One of my last assignments was to create a personal portfolio site. So I did two - One for my author persona and one for the web designer in me. I tried to post the link on Facebook so everyone could take a gander at my work, however the almighty Facebook seems to believe that my web sites are spam ... hmm, wonder what’s up with that?

 Anyhow, this is my Author Site and this is my Web Design Site. And please, do not hesitate to tell me what you think; even if it is something you believe needs improvement. Cause how can I improve if no one points out my mistakes? But you love it you say? Well, by all means, shout it to the world if you feel the need bursting inside you searching for an exit.

Almond Cookies

There are hundreds of ways to die. You can die while your heart still beats and the world continues to spin on around you. That happened to me. My husband had an affair.

The private detective I hired informed me Harold has been carrying on with this girl for a little over a year. Can you picture that? A fifty-six year old, bald-headed, pot-bellied, saggy-sacked, semi-retired chemistry teacher and a perky, barely legal, red-headed, twenty-three year old college student - we have kids older than she is.

Writing Ideas

Getting Started
Ideas Anyone?

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As a writer, I am often asked by friends and family where I get my ideas from. This is an incredibly hard question, at least for me. I could wax poetic about how I saw a special on one of those learning channels about cyanide, and that gave me the idea for my short story Almond Cookies - but that would be nothing more than another drop of fiction for the old imagination bucket. I could say "divine inspiration", but considering the racier portions of my books, probably not from there either. (wink, wink) I've been trying to figure out a reasonable explanation to this question for a while now, and the closest I've come to an answer is summed up by this quote –

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Trust that little voice in your head that says "Wouldn't it be interesting if…" And then do it. ~ Duane Michals ~

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