Can you kill someone too often? How many times can you almost kill off the main character before it is too many? Can one person be so prone to
Not sure what happened, but the blog portion of the website was not working and would not stay the way I designed it. I worked for hours on it
At any one time, there are a couple of projects in the works. Not that this is the best way to work, but it’s mine. After finishing a piece, I
Making a better blue: There is no true blue, but there are millions of blues. If you’re a painter, you may have a dozen or more blues. And that
This story, The Cat Who Saved Rehoboth, started as a submission to a mystery anthology. As I mentioned earlier, it was too far over the word count to submit. But
Why I like max word count limits and why I always go way over on the rough draft I’ve written a total of 25 short stories earmarked for competitions. I
I use an app called Scrivener to write. I absolutely love this app. I even wrote to the company and told them so. A wonderful part of the app is
The Cat Who Saved Rehoboth – Episode 3 I finally got the wind back in the sail and worked through this latest chapter in The Cat Who Saved Rehoboth. As mentioned
I really use “really” too much. I really need to curtail its use. Do I really need its emphasis in every single paragraph, really, sometimes in every sentence, written? It’s
First and foremost, let me give a huge shout-out to my ‘Readers’. Pat, Pam, and Rosemarie – you are angels. Thank you! Thank you!! Thank you!!! These women help 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?