Alice Gerard

Today’s blogging prompt is to run a contest! And I have decided to run a creative writing contest that I am hoping will be loads of fun for you. Below is a list of words that were once very commonly used but have become archaic. Your challenge is to write something in which you use […]

Today’s prompt was for me to offer you a resource list of information that could help you. Here is a list of writerly types of things that could help you out. They fall into several categories, which include internet resources, books, and resources available in your community. Books Here are a few books that I’ve

In today’s blog post, I am going to demonstrate one of the pieces of advice that I offered in yesterday’s post, titled A few random words of advice. Yesterday, I had suggested doing timed writings, with a prompt to get you started. Writing without stopping and without the pressure of feeling that your first draft has

Today’s blogging prompt was to offer some words of advice. So, I’m making up a list of random words of advice about writing. I hope that you enjoy my advice and, if so inclined, you might want to follow one or two of these suggestions.  Write about what you know. Your stories will be much

Today’s blogging challenge is the number four. It could be about anything that comes in groups of four. So the group of four that I chose was the four seasons. There are many images and stories that are associated with the seasons. Place, too, is what the seasons are about. I live near Niagara Falls,

Yesterday, I recounted my journey as a writer. I talked about all of the bumps and detours that I took to follow the literary (and journalistic) dream. Today’s prompt continues my story as a journalist. The challenge is to write about someone who inspires me and to share why that person gives me inspiration.  Because

Today’s writing prompt in the Ultimate Blogging Challenge is to talk about what got me started as a writer. Well, actually, I’ve been writing stories since I was about eight years old. I have a vivid imagination and writing gave me a chance to let it loose. But my writing skills were not equal to

Today is the start of a new year! Well, so far, I can’t say that I am overly impressed with the year 2020. I expected that, at the stroke of midnight, my eyesight would match the year. But, alas, no. Not quite. Which reminds me. I’d better go and clean my eyeglasses. All right. Clean

Buckhorn Island State Park at the northernmost tip of Grand Island is a place that is always in the state of becoming. It was once part of a forest that bordered the Niagara River, a forest that included such wetlands as swamps and marshes. It is now considered to be an Important Bird Area, and

Today’s stop on the Western New York tour is Kelly’s Country store. Located on Grand Island Boulevard, near Long Road, in the Town of Grand Island, the store is housed in a building that looks like an old barn.  Not only does that building look like an old barn, it actually actually is an old