Sheila's Guests and Reviews

I’m typing words on a page, and letters fly from keyboard to screen. My muse is hitting the high notes, laughing today, as fingers perform a percussion of clattering dreams. And coffee’s bitter brew steeps sensuously, its scented veil trailing across my eyes. But when I look at the wide white screen the notes of the muse have gone flat. Did I mean to write that? “Obituaries” will soon be telling its own. Textnovel’s page is gray, the keyboard stone, and finger-ends are wearied skin and bone. “Save chapter, start another?” Hit okay. The author and the muse together groan. (100 words) Written for Wednesday Writing Essentials : • include three senses in your article • mention a book by title, either a real book or one you've made up • use the word "page" • make sure someone shows a noisy reaction such as cry or scream or roar with laughter, etc. “Obituaries” is the romantic mystery I’m writing for a competition on textnovel.com . You have to join the site to read, but if any...

I just started writing Part 3 of my textnovel entry. You can read it if you go to http://www.textnovel.com/ . You just have to type the title, Obituaries, into the search bar. But then you have to log in or create an account. I joined textnovel to read Minnette Meador's new novel, The Bell Stalker--a really fun exercise since she's still writing it. If you go to Minnette's blog you'll see how she's planning on interviewing the head of the Homicide Division of the Portland Police Bureau. So you can tell she's going to get the details right in her mystery. It's certainly shaping up to be quite intriguing, with a fascinating cast of characters. It's interesting to read the works in progress on textnovel, hot off the keyboard so to speak. But the strangest thing for me is trying to write there, creating a novel-length story that starts at the beginning and runs to an end. I'm one of those people who usually start near the middle, or else begin with a sh...