This story may beg the question: is this writer crazy? Okay. I exaggerate. I'm a writer. It's what I do. But be that as it may. It isn't as if I don't know what I'm writing when I write. I do. Sort of. Nonetheless, I get to the end and find myself thinking, "Really? Did …
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Maybe a Boy
I may bend those gender lines successfully. I may not. Story number seven for Story-a-Day jumps from the mind of the girl to the mind of the guy. The stories before that I spent a lot of time in the male character's head. Writers should be able to put themselves into any character, right? Put …
Maybe Again and Again
I may beat my head against the wall before this is all said and written. And you may wonder why anyone would try and write a story a day. What is the point? And you may have a point. Sure. But at the very least, this exercise teaches me something about my writing... and maybe …
Maybe Behave
A character may behave in any number of ways. Although as the writer I should have final say. Right? Some writers believe characters take control of the story. Other writers are quite sure they've got the characters under their thumb. Or keyboard as the case may be. And sometimes it seems that each type of …
Maybe late than never.
This may be late. Maybe this was not the day I expected. Never expect a particular kind of day. Causes trouble. I've written story number four. You know where it is posted should you be interested in that sort of thing. This story is about romance--or the misuse thereof. Thanks to those of you who …
Maybe for 31 Days
May begins. Maybe I can't do what I set out to do. Well, what I set out to do is be a published & read author. There are too many factors beyond my control for that. More immediately, I've set out to blog every day and write a short story too. During the month I'll …
Every Damn Day
May is about to fall over and crush me flat. It's good to see the future! Anyway, I will participate in Story-a-Day May, and to add a dash of extra madness (because really, whenever you do anything, a dash of extra madness is good) I'll be trying National Blog Posting Month too! The topic (for …
Hey Blog, You’ll Never Publish in this Industry Again.
Rejection hurts. Sure. No surprise there. But rejection doesn't annoy me. People throwing their cigarette butts on the ground annoy me. Students who don't do any work and then insist on moving up to the next level annoy me. Absurd rules annoy me. And publishing is filled with absurd rules. I understand rules of politeness. …
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You want my name where?
I can't keep up with all the blogs I want to read, but lo, I have found another one to interest me. Author Anne R. Allen suggests in this blog post that a blog should have the author's name in its title. This is a small detail. And not every bit of blogging advice is …
The Fictional World
to the visitors of lakebelle.blogspot.com This post is to acknowledge that lakebelle exists in my imagination and in cyberspace but on no real world map. The three characters come from novels--novels by me. Paul survived being seventeen and in love in The Blue Jar. Linnie did her best to save the doomed heroine in Drowning …
Marta Bacon 