Brigitte's Banter
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A Writer Takes The Challenge — This Time in Beguiling Prose
At the end of January, I challenged my fellow writers/readers with a writing prompt. In my January 30th blog, Two Twenties and a Ten, I put forth my interpretation of a short story using the word, “jejune” and the phrase from Steven Wright, the comedian — “You can’t have everything. Where would you put it?” … Continue reading
Getting Out of My Comfort Zone
Since I’ve been actively writing and submitting work, I’m more aware of getting out of doing what I’ve always done and that’s mainly writing in first person point of view (POV). That mainly comes from decades of journaling so it’s easiest for me. That’s what my 120 pages plus of my novel is — so … Continue reading
What’s in a Name?
In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Juliet said: “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.” Translation: Names aren’t so important, a rose would still smell as sweet even if it were called something else. Oh, but I beg to differ. Names are very important, especially … Continue reading
I Dream of a Cottage in France…
The picture accompanying this blog is from a “poem” that I wrote over ten years ago. I purchased an inexpensive plague from a craft store and wrote the passage on a piece of parchment paper. I then burned the edges of the paper, glued it on the wooden plague and shellacked it. I’ve carried this … Continue reading
I’ve Been Tagged — Now You’re It!
Elizabeth of Scribbling in the Storage Room was “tagged” by a writer at The Writer Coaster. Elizabeth paid it forward by tagging me and a couple of other writers to answer eleven questions she’s come up with. Below are my answers to the questions she’s “challenged” me to answer — Thanks, Elizabeth! After my answers are … Continue reading
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