Writing Our Lives Day 4

Writing Our Lives Day 4

Welcome to Day 4 of Writing Our Stories – or How to Become a Writer Without Really Trying Today’s Prompt: Keys Do you have random keys in a junk drawer? Or loose on the dresser? Maybe you know what they go to. Maybe you don’t. What stories might be held in a...
Writing Our Stories – Day 3

Writing Our Stories – Day 3

Welcome to Day 3 of Writing Our Stories – or How to Become a Writer Without Really Trying. Today’s writing prompt is a Jughead comic book. Did you read comics as a kid? Do you read them now?  Comic strips in the Sunday paper were the best thing. Peanuts, of...
Writing Our Stories Day 2

Writing Our Stories Day 2

Writing Our Stories – Day 2 It’s Day 2 of Writing Our Stories, or How to Become a Writer Without Really Trying.  Writing your life stories can be as easy as sitting with a friend drinking coffee or beer. Instead of talking out loud, write it all down on paper or...
Gravedigger’s Daughter Launch

Gravedigger’s Daughter Launch

Oh hey, 2021 was quite a year! I wrote a new book, my fourth, Gravedigger’s Daughter: Vignettes from a Small Kansas Town, start-to-finish, in 2021. And with the help of my editor brother, my photographer husband, and my publishing friend Tracy, the book was...
Writing Our Lives – Prompt No. 1

Writing Our Lives – Prompt No. 1

Writing Our Stories #1Welcome to: Writing Our Stories. Or, an alternative title: How to become a Writer Without Really Trying. For the next 7 days, I’ll post writing prompts that I hope will encourage you to write your own life stories. Some of your life stories may...