Less Than 24 Hours to NaNoWriMo

Less than 24 hours now, and National Novel Writing Month, aka NaNoWriMo, begins. By this time tomorrow, I won’t have started writing. First, I got to prepare, breathe deeply, have lunch, and pray pray pray. Then I begin. I’m both excited and a little bit terrified as NaNo-Day approaches. I’ve filled out my NaNoWriMo profile,…

Poems Both Inspire and Suck

When I started the poem-a-day challenge, my only concern was whether I’d be able to write a few poems. Thirty days’ worth of poems seemed almost unreachable. Well, I’ve surprised myself and am one day away from achieving this goal! The prompts helped a lot. I doubt I could have come up with that many…

The Twitter Question

What is Twitter? Several media folk, in print or on TV or radio, have attempted to answer that question, and they usually say something typical like, “Posts, also called tweets, can range from the mundane (“Stuck in traffic”) to the heart of the human experience (“Tears. We’re having twin girls!”) There also can be too…