April 2015

defining alliteration Today’s writing exercise is all about alliteration. Here is a definition of alliteration that I found on line: “the occurrence of the same letter or sound at the beginning of adjacent or closely connection words.” This is definitely the stuff of tongue twisters, such as “she sells seashells by the seashore” or “Peter […]

The exercise for today is a creative writing exercise. It’s a bit different than yesterday’s. Today, you’re going to go to an online word generator and you’re going to get eight words that will be randomly selected by computer. Once again, the idea is to use your imagination and have fun in the process.  The

Today is a day off from the alphabet blogging (the A to Z Challenge), so I decided to do a creative writing activity. I would encourage you to do the same activity. It is a lot of fun and has the potential to produce a lot of giggles. Before I get started on the activity,

I belong to a book club that meets at the Grand Island Memorial Library once a month. We read a variety of books, including fiction, classics, nonfiction, and memoir. The benefit of belonging to a book club is that you read books by authors who are unknown to you. There are books that I would

I signed up for the A through Z blogging challenge for the month of April and, of course, promptly forgot about it.  Fortunately, today, I received a friendly reminder. So I am a little bit behind schedule but I am used to being behind schedule (or battling with tight deadlines), so I am OK with