Thursday, May 31, 2007
computer illiterate
It took me fifteen minutes to get on my blog. Thank you Sharon for your comments. I have been working on a haiku to submit for my writing group. I wrote one about each of my children. The Haiku is supposed to be 5 syllables 1st line 7the next and 5 the third line. Also supposed to refer to a season. Trouble is now I don't know which one to send in.
I got some submission opportunities but one is for pagan fiction. What is pagan fiction? MY on-line critique group with Linda Barnett-Johnson is going fine. I got really good feedback. We post again tomorrow.the poetry is mandatory. I don't like poetry. We have an interesting prompt for a story. I don't know why but I started writing it in first person, present tense. I don't really like to read stories written that way. It is turning out to be a mysery but I don't know quite where I am going with it. We are limited to 2000 words so I better get it solved soon. Funny how this writing seems to control me instead of the way it should be.
enough meandering. I will get back to work. Joan
I got some submission opportunities but one is for pagan fiction. What is pagan fiction? MY on-line critique group with Linda Barnett-Johnson is going fine. I got really good feedback. We post again tomorrow.the poetry is mandatory. I don't like poetry. We have an interesting prompt for a story. I don't know why but I started writing it in first person, present tense. I don't really like to read stories written that way. It is turning out to be a mysery but I don't know quite where I am going with it. We are limited to 2000 words so I better get it solved soon. Funny how this writing seems to control me instead of the way it should be.
enough meandering. I will get back to work. Joan
Sunday, May 20, 2007
I'm baaack!!
It is
May 20th 2007. When my computer went down I thought I had lost my blog. Guess it had been changed to Google. I think I have it figured out now..
the winter went by fast. Life interfered with my writing.I need to submit some stories and get out of my writing doldrums.
an interesting thing happened. My niece decided to participate in a museum in upstate New York that is commemorating purple heart winners from all wars the United States has been in. This enterprising girl gathered all the information she could get about my dad who was her grandfather. He was in World War One and gassed by mustard gas in France. He earned the purple heart but was never presented with it. It is now recorded that he did indeed earn the purple heart.
anyway, the museum is setting up a display whereby you can view information regarding the purple heart recipients. Patsy knew I had written a story about my Dad's being gassed and she asked me to send it to her. She sent all the information including my story to the museum.
she received a reply almost immediately from the museum. They are going to include Dad in the display and said some very kind things about my story! This won't be done for about a year. but I hope someday to go to the museum and see the display. I think I submitted the story to the writer's group at one time I'm not sure. The first time I wrote it was for Tyler's fifth grade assignment. I have re-written it several times since.
I also joined aN E-LINE writer's group and wrote a story with a prommpt. I can't seem to find replies but another grandson is coming up from PHoenix in June and he will help me figure it all out, I know. It is nice to have grandsons. Joan
May 20th 2007. When my computer went down I thought I had lost my blog. Guess it had been changed to Google. I think I have it figured out now..
the winter went by fast. Life interfered with my writing.I need to submit some stories and get out of my writing doldrums.
an interesting thing happened. My niece decided to participate in a museum in upstate New York that is commemorating purple heart winners from all wars the United States has been in. This enterprising girl gathered all the information she could get about my dad who was her grandfather. He was in World War One and gassed by mustard gas in France. He earned the purple heart but was never presented with it. It is now recorded that he did indeed earn the purple heart.
anyway, the museum is setting up a display whereby you can view information regarding the purple heart recipients. Patsy knew I had written a story about my Dad's being gassed and she asked me to send it to her. She sent all the information including my story to the museum.
she received a reply almost immediately from the museum. They are going to include Dad in the display and said some very kind things about my story! This won't be done for about a year. but I hope someday to go to the museum and see the display. I think I submitted the story to the writer's group at one time I'm not sure. The first time I wrote it was for Tyler's fifth grade assignment. I have re-written it several times since.
I also joined aN E-LINE writer's group and wrote a story with a prommpt. I can't seem to find replies but another grandson is coming up from PHoenix in June and he will help me figure it all out, I know. It is nice to have grandsons. Joan
