Are we doing a Christmas story contest this year? (Or Winter solstice, insert holiday here) - Writing in Old

True authorial confessions: When exactly do we cross that line between writing some short stories and playing big hooky editing the WIP to write a short story collection.

Kids today are going to be real surprised when they look up Ninja 🥷 in the dictionary (or phone)

Just wrote a chapter titled “Never Get a Woman Mad at You” For the yutes out there, I wish I’d learned this bit of sagacious wisdom back in my day.

My “author cat assistant” is really acting like Princess Doughnut 🍩 today! Grrr. Shout out to Matt Dinniman.

Let’s throw a log in the fire 🔥 kinda quiet. Profanity in your writing: like it, hate it, tolerate it? I think it can be appropriate based on the character and situation. Think being hilariously creative with it is best. Repetition makes me sleepy. 🥱 Chaos

Just learned today that “book club” is a genre?

Am I writing a prequel or am I drunk?

Time to get my denouement on

Writing sad scenes say so much - Elton and Bernie, kinda

Whelp, writing cliffhangers is what I do now?!

Dropping 60+ points on an underpowered NCAA football team is a crime.

Finally a good chapter title. It’s like mining for… well, quartz

Put another 3K into the WIP currently in the editing room. I’m trying to trim 5K to sharpen it a little. Will I ever learn?

Can you do a Love Hexagonal in these modern times? Looking for Spicy Tech Support.

OK, which one of you won the big money? Either Spooky or Spicy writers in this online ragtag band. Or some other genre??

Whoever coined the adjective “punchable” for a henchman’s face deserves an Author Pay Raise, and those are the best kind.

Vague about editing the WIP today. What is editing except another form of control?

So out of the 3K words yesterday, couple of sentences were bangers. 2 That’s 18~ words Sad, me 😭