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Who Stole the Corporate Sausage?
I’m writing a book of humorous essays and quips called Who Stole the Corporate Sausage? Think Dilbert met the TV show The Office and had a love child. I’m thinking of releasing a free shorter version...
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Article 4
I’m spending the day writing or in this case writing about writing. I started the day at a word count of 16,800 words for my book Who Stole the Corporate Sausage. To give some perspective my target...
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One of Those Weeks
Someone advised me to network with other authors. I was going to offer my services for something I’m really good at. Then this morning I realized I can’t remember what I’m really good at. I think I’m...
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Vegetarian Pork and Beans, How Is That Possible?
My son started eating vegetarian pork and beans. I said, “You like the pork and beans without the pork. I like them without the beans.” He said, “That’s just barbecue pork.” Laughing I said,...
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New Project …
Everyone seems to be teaching some kind of class or writing some kind of how to book. Someone suggested I take an inventory of my skills and then create an empire around my greatest ability. I thought...
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Voices in My Head
I have been challenged. Someone had thrown down the gauntlet and I felt compelled to pick it up. I met someone who has written everyday for more the 1,600 days. I mentioned how much I admired her...
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Give Me A Sign
For those who don’t know, this is the first day of a writing challenge I agreed to – Write everyday for 10 days. First, that was a stupid idea. Second, I must have been drunk or off my meds or both...
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Day 2 Ten Day Writing Challenge
That’s why my sweaters have cat hair on the inside. Today, the challenge states to write whatever comes to mind. Wow, that’s dangerous. I made the mistake of leaving my office door open last night....
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Day 3 Writing Challenge
Today’s writing challenge – Find a news article, read and then write your own take on it. It also mentioned something about journalists being impartial. By now both you and I know I spend more time...
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Day 4 Writing Challenge
Day 4 – Review a book. I think this challenge is aimed at bloggers, not fiction writers. These prompts are demonstrating where to get material to write blog posts when you don’t have any materials....
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Day 5 Writing Challenge Road Trip
Day 5 of the writing challenge is to write a story about a road trip, fact or fiction, with dialogue as if it’s happening. The sky was so gray it seemed the sun would never shine again. It match the...
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Day 6 Writing Challenge – Morphing Post
In today’s challenge, I’m supposed to write a blog post and let it organically morph into another topic. Not sure why, but then again I probably didn’t read the instructions. Men got nothing on me....
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Day 7 Writing Challenge Using a Bad Voice
Today’s challenge is to write using a bad voice. Problem:I don’t think I have another voice. This is my crappy voice. I have an instruction voice. Step 1. Strike nail with hammer. Step 2. Repeat Step...
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Day 8 – Write a BAD First Chapter
The writing challenge for today is to write a bad first chapter. The purpose behind this prompt is to give yourself permission to write a bad first draft, so that you don’t worry about the quality,...
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World Domination Day 1 – Evil Plan
Today is the first day of my World Domination Project. If you are reading this, you are in one of several groups, henchmen, minions, sidekick, subjects (see minions) or possibly arch nemesis. If you...
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World Domination Day 3 Mission Improbable
I love, love, love this podcast. Check out episode 11. I laughed until I cried. There were several suggestions for my evil villain name Enormously Egregious Evil Evilness...
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World Domination: The Evil Organization
I’ve decide on the name for our secret organization, Star Gazers. (We need a cool logo. Any artists out there with ideas, otherwise we’ll windup with me and a crayon. Probably not the image we’re...
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World Domination: Taking Over Leadership
I’ve created a sketch for the prototype which is the cornerstone of our world domination plan. I’m calling this device Hair Ball. This is a good code name, since Project Hair Ball sounds benign. To...
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