Just Announced! Cat & Mouse Press just announced the next Anthology in Rehoboth Beach Reads series is called Beach Holidays. I’m gearing up for this one. I’ve dusted off “Bandstand
Entered “The Taste of Steel” Eastern Shore Writers Association has announced a short story competition for members. I wrote “The Taste of Steel” for entry into Beach Secrets, but I
Great news! Beach Secrets, published by Cat & Mouse Press was awarded three prizes by the Delaware Press Association: 1st Place – Collection of Short Stories by Multiple Authors, 1st
Grown-up Soda Soda, soda pop, pop – I gave them up years ago. I use to love Pepsi and tolerated Coke. I moved to ginger ale in my thirties thinking
Meant to Be – 2nd draft Following the new advice from Helping Writers Become Authors the completed R&R of Meant To Be is done and in 2nd draft. The word count came down
The first draft of the revision on Meant To Be is done! In doing so, one major character – Ken – was almost cut but became a very small support role. The
Following the new advice from Helping Writers Become Authors the completed R&R of Meant To Be is done and in 2nd draft. The word count came down but not as much as needed –
The short story called “Beach Misses”, published in Beach Secrets by Cat & Mouse Press, is a story about an author who wrote multiple stories for local anthologies that were
Transforming a “pantser” into a “plotter” Meant To Be has been replotted out – using the story structure suggested by K.M. Weiland, author of many books on writing, and several
I ran across this website called Helping Writers Become Authors and found something I never heard of before. It’s probably well-known in the writing community, but I wasn’t an English major or
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?