Thank you for the prompts! My writer's block is slowly getting better.

Gah, I need to do SO much yardwork, but it is just too damn hot for me lately. Good luck with the car repairs. Too bad those don't heal themselves! :)

Those freewrite prompts almost always seem to bring out my dark side!

I'm going to write about the process occasionally. Honestly, it is just SO tedious and so much damn work, I really hate to revisit it sometimes! I wish I could afford to just pay someone else to do all

Slowly getting back into freewrites. Thank you, Marianne, for always being there with prompts and encouragement. You ROCK.

PERFECT TIMING!!! My son and his girlfriend showed me this song today. It's awesome.

I know the feeling! We've moved so much, it always took me a long while to remember which address I needed to use. Thanks for the comment :)

You can pick up over a dozen of my short stories (mostly suspense or horror) in ebook form here for free:

I'm slowly getting back to writing freewrites. There is a CRAZY amount of behind the scenes work for self-publishing and that has kept me busy. I need a break from it all sometimes, though, so I'll be

Thank you! I've deleted most of my fiction/freewrites, because I'm editing and publishing them in story collections OR I've fleshed them out to full-length novels to publish. According to amazon, if you

Yes, she does. She's been working full-time as an artist for the last 40 years now. She mostly travels and paints on motorcycles (like I used to do for a few years when the kids were small), but she also

Oh I understand. I think that most insurance is a scam and it seems like it is always a fight to get anything covered (in our experience it's more home owners insurance, but that's another novel-length

Ooops! I thought it was Saturday, so I came to do the weekend freewrite! I really like this prompt, too, though, so I might do it as well! Here is my weekend freewrite: PARANOIA

A-freaking-men! Even when we've had insurance in the past, we could never get remotely decent dental insurance. It's so frustrating.

You are so awesome. I love all of these. My mom actually paints on leather hides for people. She's deeply interested in Native American culture and history as well.

OOof! I hate going to the dentist! I wish you the best. Don't worry about the post. I think we all know by now that you're amazing and we will happily forgive any mistakes!

Thank you! I appreciate the support. I'm always writing stories that could go on and on... I may have lost the ability to write short stories!

I actually got locked out of steemit because my password suddenly stopped working. I have no idea what happened, but I tried every day for two weeks and then suddenly yesterday it worked. ??? My daughter

They are a HUGE blessing in my life. I don't know what I'd do without them!

I love seeing my children grow into adults. They are all SO different, in spite of being raised in the same house. It's kind of weird sometimes! I'm very very lucky to have such awesome 'kids' in my life