Traci Ashbe Dark Epic Fantasy Author

We’ve had some good posts and comments about writing methods, grouped generally under the two broad headings of plotter/outliner and pantser. You can read the latest entries HERE and HERE. What I want to examine today is a bromide I often hear when this subject comes up. It issues from the pantsing side of the…

Originally posted on Entertaining Stories: I didn’t even try to write new fiction this weekend. I only get two days, and Old What’s Her Face was off for both of them. I decided to dedicate my time to blogging. Most of this is the slow promotion of Grinders. I wrote a post that should go…

Originally posted on Charmed Chaos: Let love be the disease that carries me from this life to the unknown Poets and Storytellers United: Weekly Scribblings #9 Contagion dVerse Poets Pub: OLN #261

Originally posted on France & Vincent: Dear Don… Thought you might like to see what has been happening at the Virgin of the Ridge since last we were there. I can’t believe the change in the place since we wrote about it in The Initiate and Heart of Albion! As I pulled up by the…

In an effort to bring you poetry that has won in competitions, I’ve copied the SeedPods newsletter with the winners of the 2019 Samurai Haibun Contest from the UHTS. A Haibun is Prose finished with a Haiku or Senryu. Please take note of the judge’s comments after the poems. ~Colleen~ In this edition: 2019 Samurai……

Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes: For Colleen Chesebro’s weekly challenge. ? stories walk my dreams with thudding tread in the attic in piercing night calls through the rain and I half-wake in a mansion of my imagining

Originally posted on willowdot21: WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY! It’s the first of the month and we know whatever that means! Poets, Choose your own syllabic poetry form, theme, words, images, etc. It’s up to you! This week I chose a simple Etheree. Pressure Image from Pixabay The pressure Weighs heavy My shoulders bend Dragging me…

Originally posted on kimbladeswriting: Three syllabic poems this week: ************************************ The fragile eggshell jagged, empty, now only skeletal remains *********************************** Pink sky at sunset supposed shepherd’s delight, the sheep aquiesce *********************************** Ignorance is bliss only for the ignorant for others’ its hell ************************************ copyrightkimblades2020