For The Love Of Haiku

In the split second
when everyone turns their backs,
a mermaid appears.

To see what others are saying about Underwater World and how you can join in by composing a haiku of your own, visit adollyciousirony at http://allaboutlemon.com/2013/01/05/for-the-love-of-haiku-17/

You can find out how the Art Game players put together the image above at http://allaboutlemon.com/art-game/ag-w-26-underwater-hotel/

For those of you who are new to “For The Love Of Haiku” — this is a weekly fun event open to everyone, including people who’ve never attempted writing haiku before.

Happy New Year to all, and three cheers to adollyciousirony and the Art Game players!

Novel Writing Winter (NWW) 2013 – be my guest, Catherine Z!

Catherine Zgouras is an English Language Teacher (ELT) who writes books for her profession and is presently trying to enter the world of children’s fiction. We first met through an on-line writing colony — http://www.litopia.com — and now belong to the same closed, invitation-only, writing group on Facebook.

In Catherine’s words, this is what her novel-in-progress is about:

Ilda is a beautiful but very mean witch. She zaps everyone and anyone in sight. Somehow she manages to get stuck up a pole and becomes the star attraction of her town. Everyone refuses to bring her down because of all her past nasty deeds.  Her dog, Rottenbud, goes on an adventure to bring back Priscilla, their long-lost Siamese companion. On their return, they manage to get Ilda down from the pole, but has she changed for the better?

Novel Writing Winter (NWW) 2013: on your marks, get set, go!

NWWbegins
Stepping into the unknown.

My hands are poised over the keyboard, the first sentence already in my head — not a proper sentence, some might say, as it doesn’t contain a verb, and, nightmare upon nightmare, it’s a flashback told in  second-person singular voice using the present tense. But this is the year for throwing the rulebook out of the window into the shrubbery at the bottom of my garden and going speculative.

You, in a glass case?

Possibly, those are the only five words I will disclose to anyone during the writing process — five words that will take at least 50,000 words to answer.

Are there any other NWW participants willing to share their trigger sentence, with the proviso that it need not stay as their opener in subsequent drafts.

Happy writing 🙂

For those who would still like to join in with NWW, you can find further info at https://sarahpotterwrites.wordpress.com/novel-writing-winter-nww-2013/

So the world didn’t end: welcome to 2013!

MagicalNewYearBlackbird

Window on the world.
It’s never a normal day
through an author’s eyes!

With love and thanks to all my blogging friends for having made my first year on WordPress such an  enriching experience.

May peace and inspiration prevail over adversity and disincentive in 2013.