Victoria found herself consistently enchanted with Seattle whenever she had the opportunity to spend a late evening gazing out of her living room windows at the twinkling lights of the Alki district of Seattle. In all the time she had lived in this apartment, since the divorce, she had never gone to the tiny coastal crescent of night lights, an illuminated oasis of hope. Every other community in the discontiguous suburbs of Puget Sound was fair game, but she desperately needed Alki to remain a twinkling dreamland.

              INT. CAR IN USED CAR LOT — MOMENTS LATER

                                   DICK
                         Stop the car.  Trade me places.

WOOF Contest – Top 5 Picks:

Fiction - Jenn – “The Drawing”

About Writing
Lisa Alber – “Suspense and My Dog: A Lesson”
Tammie McElligott – “Female Characters - Check Your Weight!”
QuGrainne – “write on wednesday, thursday as usual”

Poetry - Jennifer M Scott - “Combustion”

Brought to you by PlotDog Press with “FIRST DRAFT - Intervention Chapter 2”

A Novel Approach - Intervention the Novel, FIRST DRAFT, please feel free to give feedback.

Jane Jordan finished locking down the convertible top of the candy apple red, 1957, classic Corvette and fit her lithe, aerobically perfect, body into the pristine leather seats of the car’s cockpit as she struggled to avoid thinking about her husband Dick. She cranked Van Halen rock and roll at old school volumes and scanned the road for cops and then for drivers she might be able to push into their own road rage.

When I started writing Jane, I had some extra motivation and a few role models.  I didn’t want to get on the other side of a lawsuit so I made some creative adjustments to her attributes, behaviors and tried like hell to make her SO bad, that no one could accuse me of basing her [...]

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Now and again, I go back and re-evaluate my stories, my scripts and my reasons for all this writing.  For the last, oh say 10 years, the reasons have the pretty traditional.  Highest on the list was pretty much the same of most prose slingers; I write cause I have to. 

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Eddie lay on his back, completely stunned. Aside from the carnage of the bed sheets, Sara’s bedroom was a study in simplicity. The bed was a sturdy four post affair; firm and plush. The mattress was clearly the most expensive furniture in the room. Sara had explained that sleep was the most important thing she did at the apartment and an expensive bed was worth the price. Eddie didn’t care. He had just had the best sex of his life. It could have been on a wood floor and on nails.

                INT. CAR — RACING THROUGH DOWN TOWN — MOMENTS LATER

                                   JANE
                         Buckle up.

               Dick fearfully fumbles with his seat belt.

               EXT. — CAR RACING DOWN THE STREET — MOMENTS LATER

WOOF Contest - Top 5 Picks:

About Writing and Author Interviews / About Poetry
Kimota - “How to Become a Writer - the Harsh Reality”
Annetta Ribken  - “Finding The Time To Write”
Robert Stevenson - “For improved writing think visually”
Qugrainne  - “Cluttered Desk, Cluttered Mind, Clear Desk…….”

Flash/Fiction – Serial Fiction
Jennifer M Scott  - “In Pursuit of Jack”

A two-part review of “Cell” and Stephen King’s “On Writing, a Memoir of the Craft”

Part II (See Part I)

I picked up “On Writing” and looked for inspiration.  This was a re-read for me, when I first got the book, I kept thinking, “well this guy just doesn’t understand me as a writer (even though I wasn’t a writer yet, I was a wanna be).  Turns out, he understood me too well and I didn’t like it at the time.  Ah, the lessons we learn as we grow.

A two-part review of “Cell” and Stephen King’s “On Writing, a Memoir of the Craft”

Part I:

Forget the circle of life, how about the shotgun of shoulda.  Sometimes you have an inspiration on writing because a single little thing pops up on your radar and you see it and you are off and running.  Sometimes a friend says, “You know you should write about…” Sometimes you just have to get some words down and you hope the topic comes to you after you flounder a bit in the writing pool.  But then there are times when the universe gives you so many head slaps you just know you best get to that topic, even if it doesn’t make any sense as to why now.  This post is one of the latter.

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No CherryBlossoms here. Only longing
Sun Blazed Like Phoenix Feathers

Ocean breeze, coconut oil sunburn
summer sun splash xbox unnecessary

barefoot dreams, golden youth stays

Exquisite Corpse is hosted by Before I am Famous

Join in the fun on Exquisite Corpse!  It is a creative and fun way to build links and make friends.

This blog is pleased to be part of the virtual book tour of Jim Musgrave’s compilation of short stories, “The President’s Parasite.” What follows is an interview I did and an excerpt from the short story with the same title as the book.
As a “pending emerging author” and pretty much a new blogger, I felt [...]

The note had come to Power Exchange from Sara, as she causally typed on her portable computer.  Power Exchange’s web page covered part of her large monitor.  Sara was hoping to catch more of Eddie’s activities and see if he was the type to cheat on her.  Fucking others with permission was entirely different than hunting other lovers and Sara, while open to opportunity and still on the hunt, was very possessive.  She had been imagining and wondering how far Eddie would go to please her if she gave him everything he ever wanted when Sara felt a tingle in her head.  On the web site for Power Exchange Victoria’s picture opened.  Sara stared and concentrated until it finally came to her.  A wide smile grew on her face and she said to the picture, “Hey beautiful, I know you.”

Most Bloggers love comments, I mean, without comments you might as well be a static website.  Unfortunately, bloggers have alot of things they need to do to promote their blog, and commenting takes the most time.  What if you could comment, link those comments to you, your blog, your other comments on other blogs AND [...]

 INT. NEW BLACK BMW — NIGHT

               Jane’s head lulls back and she closes her eyes.  Dick
               tentatively reaches for the keys.  Closer…closer until his
               crushed fingers touch the key.  Jane snaps awake.

Woof Contest- Top 5 Picks

Short Story - JHS, Esq. - "Independence Day Reflection”

About Writing
Catherine @ Sharp Words - "Thoughts about reviewing books"
Qugrainne - "Climax and the Battle of the Adjectives and the Adverbs"

Fiction - Flash/Fiction - Serial Fiction
Jenn - "The Pseudonym”

Poetry /  Collaborative Poetry
Jennifer M Scott - "Independence Day"

So, what do you think?  Do you like the new look?  Yes, we stumbled into new digs (hoping for new Diggs AND Stumbles) but also hoping that it is much easier to take a stroll through PlotDog’s cyber house.  So, let me give you some back story, take you on a bit of a tour, and show you future plans and see what differences it all makes in our blog ranking and reader’s happiness with the blog.

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Exquisite garnet shining brightly against gold
light gently caresses skin
hopefully freeing transcendent love
simple passion soaring fastidiously
Carefully discover stunning vistas

Exquisite Corpse is sponsored by Before I am Famous

Robert and Victoria sat in his office.  The desk was covered in paperwork and computer systems hummed in the back ground as Victoria spun lazy circles on an office chair.  Robert typed and clicked on the system.    
 
He glanced over at Victoria and said, “I’ll have the web page functional in the next day or [...]

EXT. OUTSIDE SENATORS DOOR — NIGHT
               Dick is trying to help Jane down the steps.  Jane resists and
               breaks free and pin balls off a topiary and into a tree, gets
               her bearings, brushes off Dick’s help and forces her hand
               into his jacket pocket.  She pulls out the car keys.
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Woof Contest Top 5 Picks

About Writing

- Miss Write - "Rethink These Writing Myths"

- Gargantua Stormcaller - "Ten Pitfalls of Fanfiction”

- Tammy Searles - "Writers who are also photographers"

Fiction - Jenn - "An Unexpected Independence Day Celebration"

Poetry - Matthew S. Urdan - "Circles"

Ironic that it takes nearly thirteen hundred words to write about one great sentence.
I just learned about stumbling, something that until this point in time, I thought was only done after having imbibed too many large long island ice teas (I know they sound like an innocent concoction, what with tea in the name) but [...]

Some days you ask a question, expecting it to never be answered and the next day, BAM the answer hits you right between the eyes.  I have (along with my occasionally smart mouthed and very smart webgoddess/ procrastinating editor) been working this blog for about 2.5 months.  I make it really about 2 months of [...]

REQUEST FOR ENTRIES for WOOF Contest - 07/11/08 
WOOF "Writers Offering Our Finest" Contest for Writer’s and Writing Blogs
We accept posts with original work - fiction, poetry, prose, graphic novels, information about the writing process and Photo’s and Artwork about WRITING.

Join this contest for the best posts by writers or about writing. Contestants in each cycle [...]

A Novel Approach - Intervention the Novel, FIRST DRAFT, please feel free to give feedback.

Before being snagged into married life he had always been Richard, not Dick.  It wasn’t until he met his wife Jane that he had been renamed.  The renaming had happened almost moments after he met her.  Even now he wasn’t sure [...]

John Marshall sat on a bench on the waterfront of Seattle’s Pike Place Market.  He couldn’t remember the last time he wasn’t pissed.  Even when he had something that worked out his way, John could easily find a reason to gravitate towards hostility.  It was such an effective way to manage the fucking idiots who [...]

 
INT. INSIDE SENATORS HOUSE — LATER
               Dick searches for Jane, spots her with the Senator in a dark
               room.  They are close and whispering.  Dick approaches.
                                   JANE
                         Dickie, where have you been?  Alan
                         and I were just discussing turning
                         the center into a federal program.
                         We talked about your business too.   
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The Risk of Reading While Writing

I wonder if it is any other writer but me.  What I read impacts what I write.  It seems like the voices in my head give just a bit of an accent to my writing.  It feels like spending a few months in England, the patterns, tones, turns of phrase [...]

We were honored to get this award from Jennifer M Scott at "Before I Am Famous".  Thank you Jennifer, we truly enjoy your blog and enjoy your support of PlotDog Press’ WOOF Contest.  Based on the rules of this award (see below) we are asked to pass it on to 5 of our favorite blogs.  [...]