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Utter Fabrication: Historical Accounts of Unusual Buildings and Structures
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  • Fun for Friday: November 2026 Writing Prompts

    It’s almost November–I can feel it in the air! So it’s time for the November 2026 writing prompt list! The first column is Nocturnal November, and it’s all nocturnal animals! There was one on the list that I hadn’t heard of, so I added a Wikipedia link for that one. If you don’t want to

  • WriteHive 2026 Online Conference: Practical Tips for Avoiding Ableism in Your Writing

    Now that the videos from the 2026 WriteHive online conference are posted, I’ll be sharing some of those with quick summaries. Today, I’m talking about the “Practical Tips for Avoiding Ableism in Your Writing” presentation from Nicoletta Poungias. I took a screenshot of my comment on this presentation, which I watched during the WriteHive weekend,

  • “A Year Without an October” and “Hatching a Plan” in Weathering Youth

    Because Weathering Youth is my biggest collection to date, I’m grouping the short stories and flash fiction stories in pairs for my posts, based on the way they fall in the collection. This lets me look at the connections between the stories and how I decided to arrange specific stories in the collection! “A Year Without an

  • WriteHive 2026 Online Conference: How to Level Up Your Self-Editing Skills

    Now that the videos from the 2026 WriteHive online conference are posted, I’ll be sharing some of those with quick summaries. Today, I’m talking about “How to Level Up Your Self-Editing Skills.” I’ve been editing for decades, but I always find there’s something more to learn on the topic. The vast majority of my editing

  • Fun for Friday with Big Pink Book Prompt 15: Leisure?

    There’s a lot going on in the image of how I used prompt 15 in the Big Pink Book, so let’s dive in! Since I had the washi tape across the top of the page, I turned the book sideways to write my list, which led to a weird page with the caption on both

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