We went to church today and there weren’t very many people there. My class was just me and the teacher. She let me play on the playground after we did the Bible story and art project. Instead of going out to eat like we normally do, Momma and Daddy decided we should go grocery shopping.…
All us kids have been out of school for spring break. School was supposed to start up again on Monday, but now we are having two weeks of spring break. Apparently lots of people are afraid the virus will make toilet paper disappear so they made it disappear instead. I guess that’s why they were…
Covid-19 Quarantine March 8 was the last day of really normal life, but I didn’t know it at the time. Momma said she didn’t usually look at cats on the internet. I said I know that. She didn’t explain. I asked Daddy. He said it was part of an internet joke. Turns out the joke…
It’s been weeks of shelter-at-home. I’ve written very little and eaten way too much. A day or so ago, after spending several hours praying for folks via Facebook, I decided I really should create a diary of the experience. But I don’t want to write my own. That’s boring and too angsty. I’m safe and…
Since I included other Persona Voice Questions, I thought I should offer some other questions from my oblique cards, How to Get Unstuck. I will confess that sometimes, just reading through the questions is enough inspiration to get me going. In fact, reading through the questions for the first post is what got me to…
One of my heroes: “Denver the Dapper Dog with the permanent tuxedo and the cool bow tie.” Note: The dog to the left is my dog, who was my inspiration, but is nothing like Denver. Thankfully imagination works like that. A story idea that came from an icebreaker speech at Toastmasters (used with permission):…
Almost 30 years ago I read an article about voice. The author, Carl Leggo, had 100 questions about voice. Then in February I attended a webinar by Candy Fleming in which she talked about voice and persona and crafting your persona/voice until it was clearly yours no matter what you wrote. I have used the…
2020 has some special days in it. One of those is today. It is leap year. What kind of pb story can be written about leap year? I really enjoyed one about someone’s 16th birthday … She was in her 60s.
One of the stories I remember from when I was a child–before we could afford books–was about a woman who had never had a birthday party and was going to be 16 years old. She was ancient. The MC was sad that her friend was losing her mind. The woman didn’t have dementia. She was born…
