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photo credit My dear, lovely friend and sometime editor Lyz Schulte just tagged me on Facebook and challenged me to post the first seven lines of my current Work In Progress (WIP, for us author types).
Everyone knows the story of Leonidas and the Spartan 300 at Thermopylae. But there was another side to the story. Stand as Gods It is hot, and I am small. And haven’t I walked just as far as all the men
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Here's the shtick: I write a story, a scene at a time. Then I write a pair of second scenes, taking the story in two different directions--a story fork. The reward total after three days determines which
The Forking Story: Throw The Bones (A Cheating Death splinter story)--Fork 5A
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Here's the shtick: I write a story, a scene at a time. Then I fork it, writing two new scenes that branch off the first one, kind of a choose-your-own-adventure kind of thing. Upvote money picks the fork
The raggedy sunflowers are dried and withered in the front garden, and need to come out. But my goldfinches love them so, and sing so sweetly every morning when they visit, that I can't do it. They don't
The Forking Story: Throw The Bones (A Cheating Death splinter story)--Version 4Z
Here's the shtick: I write a story, a scene at a time. Then I write a pair of second scenes, taking the story in two different directions--a story fork. The reward total after three days determines which
The Forking Story: Throw The Bones (A Cheating Death splinter story)--Version 4A
Here's the shtick: I write a story, a scene at a time. Then I write a pair of second scenes, taking the story in two different directions--a story fork. The reward total after three days determines which
Original Fiction: For All The Marbles (Part 3 of 3)
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Original Fiction: For All The Marbles (Part 2 of 3)
This story was written four years ago as part of a writing workshop, off the prompt to write something about an object: in this case, a marble. It was the first time I tried to write off that kind of prompt,
The Forking Story: Throw The Bones (A Cheating Death splinter story)--Version 3Z
Here's the shtick: I write a story, a scene at a time. Then I write a pair of second scenes, taking the story in two different directions--a story fork. The reward total after three days determines which
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Here's the shtick: I write a story, a scene at a time. Then I write a pair of second scenes, taking the story in two different directions--a story fork. The reward total after three days determines which