Killing Adverbs
Have you killed any adverbs lately? It’s very cathartic. Just run a search for ‘ly’ and see what you find. Why am I doing this? I bought a book on copyediting to aid me in my quest to copyedit my own work. Deleting words ending in ‘ly’ or replacing them with stronger verbs, claimed the book, as good way to tighten up writing. So a ran simple search on my Google Doc just to see how many ‘ly’ words I had used. I didn’t think there were that many because I know to avoid them. An eye-opening number of items returned in … Continue reading Killing Adverbs
Selfie
Everyone is doing it. Thought I’d post a selfie in case you were wondering if the curly locks shot is really me. It is though my hair obviously doesn’t do curls without intervention. And I don’t intervene unless it’s a really special occasion and the bride demands it. Continue reading Selfie
Thank you for all the likes, follows, views and reads
Dear Reader, I hope you enjoyed your Sunday. Perfect weather we had in my corner of the world today and I hope in yours too. Today’s post is not a story post, and I apologize that I can’t provide your daily dose of fantasy fiction. I ran into some technical issues with the audio book recordings. A quick G-chat with my cousin helped me to see the error of my setup. An error I’m working to correct. Tonight I hope to do another take. (Who needs sleep?) Cross your fingers that my neighbors will turn in early, and quietly, and … Continue reading Thank you for all the likes, follows, views and reads
What did you read this week?
Well what did you read? I really do want to know. So leave me a comment and let me know. I’m asking this because I love stories and I’m always looking for something new to read, some new author’s works to fall in love with (in audio of course). I did mention somewhere on here that I am an audiobook addict right? Audible is my drug of choice. I can’t get enough of that site. I start my day off by checking the daily deals. Follow that up by skimming through the pre-orders and recent releases while munching on my … Continue reading What did you read this week?
Divination – A Sonnet for Your Thoughts
Divination And I lay sleeping, weaving a dead dream, a late nightmare where we played tarot cards stacked in two piles on headstones that gleam. In the cemetery where we played bards, by the waning light of the sun, singing, chanting spells, drawing cards that spoke of woe. Their words echoed across the graves, ringing softly, raising souls and bones row by row. Words uttered by plastic voices that rose and fell with the guttering candle flames, that let cards foretell our late repose when our children will invoke our sweet names, by our graves, drawing tarot cards whose … Continue reading Divination – A Sonnet for Your Thoughts
Breaking Curses
Sarn has a problem. His eyes glow green all the time due to a magic that’s slowly chewing away at his sanity. Sarn indentured himself to pay for his younger brother’s education and was assigned to the Rangers at sixteen. In the four years since then, he has built a tenuous and often strained relationship with his fellow Rangers. It doesn’t help that odd things happen around him all the time. Odd things that begin to add up into a terrifying whole… Continue reading Breaking Curses
Attack of the Sluginator
I am the sluginator. I terminate slugs in my garden with extreme prejudice and a lot of stomping. Nothing like squishing those things before they eat my plants. It’s quite cathartic. If you have a slug problem like I do, don’t fret. You don’t have to buy nasty chemicals and risk poisoning the food you’re trying to grow. There’s a simple solution that I have found that’s natural. I ran across an article back when I first noticed the slugs that claimed that they can’t tolerate caffeine. After searching about to confirm this, I found post after post about fed … Continue reading Attack of the Sluginator
Audiobook Round-up
What did you read this week? I fed my audiobook addiction with some great reads. I hope you did too. From the Higgs Boson to the blackgaurds of the fantasy to everyone’s favorite serial killer, this week’s offerings sent me on a wild literary ride. The Great Courses: Higgs Boson and Beyond Dive into particle physics. This series of lectures is for the arm chair physicist in you. It explains what the heck a Higgs Boson is and why countries spent millions of dollars to build a collider in the hopes of producing one. Prof Carroll is thoroughly entertaining as … Continue reading Audiobook Round-up
Note to My Sister
September is days away. I still have to remind myself not to start searching for the perfect birthday gift for my sister. She’s dead. Gone to a better place I hope where all the woes that plagued her in life no longer pester her. Down here on earth I’m still here. Same job. Same commute. Same dream. Her dying wish still unfulfilled. Continue reading Note to My Sister
Audio Books: My Not-so-Secret Obsession
What are you reading?
I love asking people that because I’m always on the hunt for recommendations. Reviews are my best friend. Yet I rarely ever post one on Audible unless the book has no reviews at all. Then I feel morally obligated to fill in the gap.
So what am I reading? Continue reading Audio Books: My Not-so-Secret Obsession
Balance
While wracking up the points in one of the free rewards programs I indulge in, I ran across an interesting ad. It was for a site called http://www.mymixify.com. I didn’t watch the commercial. I usually ignore them but the last few seconds caught my attention. Instead of showing the usual array of really unhealthy snacks, the screen showed almonds, containers of fresh fruit and other healthy goodies. Then it flashed up something about mixing it up and keeping it fresh. Short Attention Span (moi) went to the site to have a look-see. Apparently the site is sponsored by the major … Continue reading Balance
The Challenge
Ok, I’m finally starting a blog. You can stop mentioning it now. Really. I got the point. I am taking the mental challenge (thanks Coleen Phoenixxx). Why am I blogging? Because people keep telling me to. They believe I have something that needs to be said. I finally got tired of telling them that everything I’d write about has already been written. So here I am blogging. I’m saying all the things that need to be said and I’m challenging myself to say those things right here every day. Right now this blog is not about anything in particular. That might … Continue reading The Challenge
Between the Lines: Rachel Wollaston
Welcome to the first post in a new series, Between the Lines, which features indie author Rachel Wollaston. Have you ever thought of inanimate objects having preferences? Well Rachel has and one particular inanimate object has an agenda of its own. Let’s see how this idea plays out in Kingdom. Rachel Wollaston: When I was two years old, I decided I wanted to become a fairy (I still do, really, but that’s beside the point). I guess you could say that was the start of my fascination with all things fantasy. As cliché as it sounds, it has always been my dream … Continue reading Between the Lines: Rachel Wollaston
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