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And it’s been an eventful one, including two birthdays [Canada and my son’s — he’s the younger…] baking a cake and pulling a car out of a ditch with my jeep. But I can’t let the day go by without sharing this fun cover reveal for an upcoming release by YA writer Denise Jaden.  Continue reading “Canada Day!”

to smell the flowers this morning. How has your summer begun…? The crazy continues here at kcdyer central, so a moment enjoying the garden is always welcome. Hoping you can find some peace today!   More soon…   ~kc

creative commons image by Becky Bokern. Thanks, Becky!Router crashed yesterday — and the usual chaos ensued. Back online now, with just time to suggest the following for your 100 word challenge… Write about the teeny tiny problem — easily solved — that instead sets off a firestorm/disaster/nightmare. Go!   More soon…   ~kc

How is your 100 word challenge progressing? I heard some good feedback on how some of you are addressing the subject of loss in your work. It’s interesting, you know, because loss is so different than conflict. Loss — true loss — there is no coming back from. No action can change it. In lifeContinue reading “Hunger…”

      Well. This has been a pretty tough month for me, on a number of fronts. So, let’s talk about loss, shall we? I’m kinda in the mood… For your 100 word challenge, subject one of your characters to an unexpected –and therefore shocking — loss. How do they cope? How does thisContinue reading “Loss…”

A quick one tonight, in honour of the Camelopardalis… A third of our lives [give or take, latitudinally-speaking] is spent under a night-time sky. For tomorrow… Use your 100 word challenge to celebrate the night sky. Is it a backdrop? Is it the setting itself? Does it light the path, unexpectedly? And just how doContinue reading “The Night Sky”

Rare Scottish Proboscis…For the next writing prompt, I’d like you to turn your attention to the most neglected part of the sensory setting in most stories — the olfactory.   What does it smell like in this scene — a freshly rain-washed morning? The inside of a week-old noodle box? The insole of a teenContinue reading “What is that smell…?”

  A great guy for changing hats: author James McCannHow goes the challenge? Getting your 100 words in every day? If you have been, this post will bring you up to 500 words for the week. Congratulations — and keep at it! Tomorrow’s 100 word challenge is to help get you past a rough spot.Continue reading “Changing Hats…”

Just what DOES that angel mean, anyway…? How did you do with the ‘unlikeability’ challenge? Did you find one truly unlikeable element with which to humanize your character…? Hope so! And now, a change of pace. You know the old adage — nothing kills momentum like backstory. [Isn’t that an old adage? Okay, maybe not,Continue reading “Backstory…untold”

…unlikeable!” photo by Muhammad Mahdi Karim, CC share alike licence Last winter I spent some time in Edinburgh, and is my wont, I read a book by a local author while I was there. It happened to be ‘FILTH’ by Irvine Welsh. I loved it. Could NOT put it down. That part of it wasContinue reading ““But I don’t want her to be …”