Originally posted on BlondeWriteMore: ? Have you ever experienced that heart stopping moment when you realise you have a whiny character? Have you created a character who repeatedly complains at length (be it internally or externally) about the problems facing them, and does nothing significant to address their problems? For the record, I would rather tackle…
via How To Deal With Whiny Characters #MondayBlogs #Writers #Author — Chris The Story Reading Ape’s Blog
Every once in a while I get called upon to use my powers for good. Case in point, last week I had to make a pie…which turned out deliciously but did leave me with a bit of excess pie crust dough. Rather than waste it, I decided to whip up a batch of ridiculously easy […]
There is no patriotic intent in today’s post, but the colour of the blooms instantly reminded me of the Union Jack flag and it just so happened I had these tiny flags purloined from celebrations of some royal event, probably the wedding of William and Kate in 2011. This was in my still-working, pre-blogging and […]
via Ina Vase on Monday: Flying the Flag — Rambling in the Garden
Originally posted on BlondeWriteMore: ? Have you ever experienced that heart stopping moment when you realise you have a whiny character? Have you created a character who repeatedly complains at length (be it internally or externally) about the problems facing them, and does nothing significant to address their problems? For the record, I would rather tackle…
via How To Deal With Whiny Characters #MondayBlogs #Writers #Author — Chris The Story Reading Ape’s Blog
The rain is generous here, manifesting its chameleon ways. It beguiles and rages, tap dances and waltzes, arrays the city’s narrow streets in a rainbow of taupe, bisque, slate; calls cyclists and walkers to come nest in cubbyholes with a strong coffee or beer and ponder from windows the voluptuous clouds, their churlish rebuke. Rainfall […]
Silly Saturday! From walking in the woods to fine forest finds, such lovely discoveries were made. Yesterday’s playful Daniel Smith watercolor mixings was so Fun! Looking at these patterns and colors of the bark and lichen – can You – come up with “Color Recipes” to emulate? Why don’t you give it […]
by Karen Topakian Before the judge could hear our case on Wednesday March 1st for hanging the RESIST banner from a construction crane behind the White House, I needed to pass a drug test, which normally takes two hours to receive the results. First stop, the Drug Testing and Compliance Unit, where a pleasant women stood […]
They don’t tell you that one day you will be in a beach house filled And warm With people you met through a small screen in your hand. That the screens will be there too. That yours will light up and somehow Someone a few feet away will have sent you (silently) A group photo…
What is happiness? My happiness comes in little poems, Like the eye of the hurricane: The moment of rest after one chaotic lifetime And the next. I’ve spent time hanging On to every moment, Capturing what I wanted to be my own. They told me, “To find true Joy Follow Christ on the […]
There is a place in sunlit paradise Where there is no extravagences of prejudice Or the sneers of Pride No heartbreaks to scatter your heart No betrayls to mend you apart No expectation to fulfill No city to tear us apart O!how sublime and awe inspiring place that must be Where i will find your […]
