Writing

Fiction is Now My Main Squeeze

Last month on July 29, I wrote Fiction is My Mistress.  I have now decided that for the time being, until my new project is complete, I have to put CJPPhotoNews and Wisdom and Life into hibernation.  Up until last November, I didn’t think I would return to writing fiction again.  Now though, I have found that fiction […]

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Snippets From Random Acts

This column contains Amazon Affiliate Links!   As with last week’s column, Fiction is my Mistress, I’m again sharing snippets from short stories I’ve written in the past and am continuing to write as you read today’s column.   This week I’m sharing snippets from my short story collection: Random Acts: Stories of Redemption This snippet […]

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Fiction Is My Mistress

I’m still writing my Block Island stories and I’ll share some fragments from the new story I’m working on at the moment. Image from: Pixabay From Arrivals and Departures: In no particular order, here are four fragments  1.     Sean strolled away then.  He walked to the far end of the property and sat near the […]

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A Look Back

Nine years ago, I started writing Wisdom and Life.  So hard to believe it’s been nine years since this blog has existed.   Image from: Pexels.com Thought it would be fun to read my initial post from May 30, 2010: Starting another blog today. After hearing some of my story a few weeks ago, my […]

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Christmas Crossroads

This will be my last column this year. I’m going on my yearly holiday hiatus. Will be back the first week in February. However, unlike previous hiatuses  I will continue writing. Just not my two blogs.  I’m working on short stories again. My friend and blogger, Jean Wise is also a published author. Her latest […]

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Publication Dreams

Being creative, being a writer is who I’ve always been.  As long as I COULD write, I’ve been writing. Novels, novellas, short stories.  I have a plethora of them, In the early to mid 1990s I began to see some success, having been been published sporadically in the small press.  Once you get a taste […]

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Why Do You Write?

Uh oh! Another column about writing?  Well it is part of who I am. Of all the questions I get the one that most fascinates me is: Why do you write?   Image from: Pixabay   That was an easier question to answer in my youth.  I wrote then to release stress. As with all […]

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