“Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.” – Norman Vincent Peale “Hello, my name is ML and I’m an insecure writer.”“Hello, ML.”“Oh…no need to be so formal…you can call me m.” It’s good to be attending my first … More IWSG: November
The Song of the Phoenix by Cpt <HUN>, Flickr Hell. I need a cuppa joe. Four days into the NaNoWriMo and coffee pots are brewing non-stop in the homes of 300,000 writers — or at least in the home of this writer, whose fingers are about to skitter right off the laptop. Caffeine, I’ve found in this … More And They Were Cast into the Lake of Fire…
My first short story to share with you, as it originally appeared in The Alzheimer’s Reading Room. In the future, most stories like this will only appear in the Short Stories section of the blog, but I wanted to post it on the homepage today to introduce that newly formed category. Feel free to wander the board … More In the Darkness of Dawn
Hello fellow wordsmiths, and thank you for following me over to my new writer’s blog. I hope you like the layout and find it easy to navigate. When first developing my other blog, Treading Water in the Goldfish Bowl, it was to be about these years as a caregiver for my Mom. I tried to incorporate … More Welcome To The New Layout!
The cool table of young, hip writers. Needless to say, I wasn’t one of them. “At risk of sounding foully pompous, I think that writers’ groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writer’s career.” – Bernard Cornwell This past weekend, the Big Bend area of the NaNoWriMo held their 2012 Kick-off Dinner, and … More Tallahassee NaNoWriMo Kick-Off Dinner
M.L. Swift, Writer 