Ideas sometimes whisper

June 2, 20145 Comments

I tried to come up with a quick short story to post today for the first Writing 101 challenge. I’m really excited to be participating in another Blogging University event, especially one that’s geared toward writing! Normally all I have to do is just look out the window for just a whisper of an idea, and then I’m off, my hand (and pen) gliding swiftly over the page, seemingly of their own volition.

But not today.

For whatever reason, I’m unable to concentrate today. The only thing to be heard at the moment is the song “Frankenstein” by the Edgar Winter Group, which is currently blaring from the office radio. Soon enough, it will be something else, something which is sure to be be equally distracting. I mean, it’s a good song, but when I’m trying to focus on characters and setting and plot, it’s too…

Time flies

December 17, 2012December 17, 20122 Comments

My little Tomcat at the tender age of four
Photo by Kay Kauffman

My, how time flies! Without my even realizing it, this little blog o’ mine has turned five years old. That happened somewhere around the tail end of last month and I forgot all about writing my planned retrospective about my time in the blogging world.

Five years. My, how the years have flown! I started blogging about six months after my divorce was finalized. I wanted to write passionate political spiels of great depth and insight; I wanted to pen fantastic short fiction that was sure to catch the eye of someone important, that elusive one right person who could make all my lifelong literary dreams come true; I wanted to create a wildly successful blog that would spawn book deals and syndicated columns and who knows what else.

In short, I had high hopes. I was young, bright-eyed yet jaded. Possibly I had delusions of grandeur.

So, here we are again…

March 29, 201218 Comments

…Yep, that’s right, I’m back in black. Piano Black, that is. I loved the Bouquet theme I’d been using, but I didn’t love the way it made images in my sidebar so big. I spent last night playing around with themes, unable to find one that truly made me happy (Chateau? Pilcrow? Maybe Vertigo?). So now I’m back to Piano Black, but I wanted something lighter. Trouble is, without purchasing a CSS upgrade that I would be sorely confused by, there’s no way to change the font color and the background I picked for use here that actually looked really nice with the black transparent overlay was just too light for the font to be truly readable. *sigh* Back to the drawing board…

I may continue to play around with this for some time. Apologies in advance if something you liked disappears for a bit.