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The New House

So come on in, wipe your feet and make yourself comfortable. Check the place out (especially the beautiful, wood-stained deck!), walk around, and I hope you have a wonderful time. Oh, and come on back whenever you want. Tell your friends. Thanks in advance.

By bumbershoots writers society March 8, 2024Blog, Writing

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THE JOURNEY—INTERLUDE

THINGS JUST GOT REAL When I married my wife almost 26 years ago, my place of employment wouldn’t let me have one weekend off for a brief honeymoon to Eureka…

By bumbershoots writers society March 2, 2024Blog, Marketing, Writing1 Comment

Reading Writing

The Value of Short Stories

Short stories are a curious slice of the fiction writer’s art. The best ones are like gems, perfect little crystals that need nothing else to shine. It can be a…

By bumbershoots writers society December 14, 2023Reading, Writing

Reading Writing

Discovering Characters

Here’s a little exercise for you. Picture a doctor. Now, picture a female doctor. Now, picture a Black female doctor. Now, picture an elderly Black female doctor. Now, picture a…

By bumbershoots writers society December 7, 2023Reading, Writing

Reading Writing

The Story that Writes Itself

J. R. R. Tolkien once said, “I have long ceased to invent. I wait till I seem to know what reallyhappened. Or till it writes itself.” Writing is a strange,…

By bumbershoots writers society November 30, 2023Reading, Writing

Art Writing

Lend Your Creative Voice to the World

It’s a rough time, lately, being a creative. Maybe it always has been, I dunno. The artists, writers, musicians, dancers— the sensitives, the ones who throw their hearts into everything…

By bumbershoots writers society November 7, 2023Art, Writing

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The Journey Part IV

Even Introverted Writers Need to Build Relationships After writing last month’s blog and being out and about in town, doing the clichéd things writers do—like writing over a steaming mug…

By bumbershoots writers society October 12, 2023Marketing, Writing

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Struck by Lightning

I often get asked if my characters are based on real people. Sometimes they are, at least in part;I’ve only rarely written a character with a single real person in…

By bumbershoots writers society October 5, 2023Reading, Writing

Art

Words as Art

I consider myself, as part of Bumbershoots Writers Society, the only full-time completely non-writing member of the group. Although, here I am writing. Dictating, actually, because I do some of…

By bumbershoots writers society September 21, 2023Art

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The Journey, Part III

Is Something Working? Writing can be a lonely process (except for maybe the voices in your head, characters vying for attention). However, none of us are truly alone in this…

By bumbershoots writers society September 7, 2023Marketing