Witching Hour Not my year, but there’s always next year. Bucks County Community College announced the winner of this year’s short story contest. I’m not surprised ‘Witching Hour’ wasn’t selected
Beach Holiday – Books are out! The books are printed and hot on the shelves of BrowseAbout Book Store on Rehoboth Avenue. But even better will be the book launch
Witching Hour For this competition, I started with an idea that came from a conversation I had with a fellow writer. If you’ve read the blog posts you have seen
Bucks County Community College announces a short story contest. BCCC posted a short story contest with a deadline of Mid November and a length of 18 pages (approx 5000 words).
Judges Award I’m proud to announce that the story, originally titled ‘Every Holiday’, has been accepted into this year’s Rehoboth Reads anthology competition called Beach Holidays. The story is a
My story, “Taste of Steel” was not accepted in the 2022 Bay to Ocean Anthology by Eastern Shore Writers Association. Shame, it felt like a good fit and I
Join us on Saturday, July 9 from 1 to 4 at the Lewes Public Library for the launch party of BEACH SECRETS. My story, “Beach Misses” is among 25 other
Beach Holiday – 3 Submitted The latest anthology contest by Cat & Mouse Press – Beach Holidays – is closed. I gave a complete Revise & Rewrite to Bandstand Dreams,
Done. Four stories were written, re-written, edited, re-edited, spell-checked, audio edited, and then sent to my fabulous beta-readers. The feedback warranted a bunch of fixes and so four stories needed
3 Down “Bandstand Dreams”, a story written for Beach Dreams, got a complete R&R – Revise and Rewrite. It’s a cute story starring Pamala Stanley. I hope she still lets me
PERFECT BEACH DAY – Books are in!
Thanks for visiting my website.
For the last several years, my artistic focus has been writing. I tried my hand at a short story contest in a local anthology and really loved the writing process. Since then, I’ve written dozens of short stories, a few novella and novel-length works, and a whole lot of plots. This site will predominately showcase my writing and have some family and quirky stuff tossed in. My current project will be the lead, with past projects below.
Feel free to contact me if you see something that interests you, find a spelling mistake, want to read one of my works, or especially if you are interested in publishing my latest novel.
This site is a work in progress; I am still figuring out how best to present my writing. Suggestions are welcomed.
Lonn
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Work In Process:
- Meant To Be – due to a computer crash, I lost the last edited version. So I’ll need to take a step back and do the final revision again.
- Stacy Fischer Can Dance The Tango Considering making this a serial posting. A friend suggested I start a fo-fund-me page to have the book published. I was thinking more like asking for 10¢ a chapter if you liked the chapter. That may be whacked.
- The Cat Who Saved Rehoboth – If Perfect Beach Day gets any traction from bookstore sales or my personal website sales, I will put this at the top of the list and try to have it ready for 2024.
- Red Spinny Dress – This is a story that I wrote a rough draft for two years ago, but then I got busy with other stories for various competitions. At the witching hour right after Christmas, the preverbal lightbulb went on and I was running through the story. I took another look at it and realized the problem. The first chapter is a good short story worth working on. The rest of the story is not. Suddenly I realized the full story wasn’t about the real conflict with the protagonist. So the story meandered around chapter one’s theme and went nowhere. I opened up K.M. Weiland’s Novel Outlining program and figured it out on the first page – I did understand the real conflict. I do now and am re-plotting the story. The good news, the first chapter fits well. This will be my next full-length work to work on. (NOTE: Chapter 1 is being re-written for submission to the Bucks County Community College Short Story Competition. If by some chance it wins, I will still continue the novel version.)
- Canal Ghost: Just when you don’t need another story to write, one pops into my head. I started a story for the Bucks County Community College short story contest but it was too long at the halfway point. I stopped it and shelved it but it kept coming back in those wee hours. Every morning, I would write down the ideas that came to me and by the end of last week, I had to give it a go. So I plotted out the entire story. Now the question is: when to write it?
Work In Process:
- Meant To Be – due to a computer crash, I lost the last edited version. So I’ll need to take a step back and do the final revision again.
- Stacy Fischer Can Dance The Tango Considering making this a serial posting. A friend suggested I start a fo-fund-me page to have the book published. I was thinking more like asking for 10¢ a chapter if you liked the chapter. That may be whacked.
- The Cat Who Saved Rehoboth – If Perfect Beach Day gets any traction from bookstore sales or my personal website sales, I will put this at the top of the list and try to have it ready for 2024.
- Red Spinny Dress – This is a story that I wrote a rough draft for two years ago, but then I got busy with other stories for various competitions. At the witching hour right after Christmas, the preverbal lightbulb went on and I was running through the story. I took another look at it and realized the problem. The first chapter is a good short story worth working on. The rest of the story is not. Suddenly I realized the full story wasn’t about the real conflict with the protagonist. So the story meandered around chapter one’s theme and went nowhere. I opened up K.M. Weiland’s Novel Outlining program and figured it out on the first page – I did understand the real conflict. I do now and am re-plotting the story. The good news, the first chapter fits well. This will be my next full-length work to work on. (NOTE: Chapter 1 is being re-written for submission to the Bucks County Community College Short Story Competition. If by some chance it wins, I will still continue the novel version.)
- Canal Ghost: Just when you don’t need another story to write, one pops into my head. I started a story for the Bucks County Community College short story contest but it was too long at the halfway point. I stopped it and shelved it but it kept coming back in those wee hours. Every morning, I would write down the ideas that came to me and by the end of last week, I had to give it a go. So I plotted out the entire story. Now the question is: when to write it?