Clarion Write-a-Thon Week Four
Erm…could we just pretend that Week Four didn’t happen? Because that would be a good explanation for all those zeroes in my running word count. All I can say is “Ouch.” Really. Last week pretty much kicked my rear end.
Will Sing for Sponsorship
Any of you who know me at all know that I am kind of freaking out right now. I love to sing, but am terrified of singing in public. It took me almost ten years to sing in front of my husband, and three years to do karaoke. But here I am, offering to [...]
Clarion Write-a-Thon Week Three
Every week, Clarion issues a challenge to the Write-a-Thon participants. This week, they’ve challenged us to get creative about finding donors — try something crazy. If I bring in at least a $1 donation in a creative fashion between now and 11:59 pm Sunday 7/19, I will have an opportunity to win a $50 [...]
Clarion Write-a-Thon Week One
Week One of the Clarion UCSD Write-a-Thon ended yesterday and I’m already up to 4,843 words. Considering that my original goal was 9,000 words and I’m over halfway there, I’ve revised my goal up to 40,000.
Clarion Write-a-Thon
The biggest mistake my mother made in raising me was teaching me how to read when I was three years old. She wrote down every new word I learned on an index card, then quizzed me on them. When I had collected enough words, I started stringing them together into sentences across the family [...]
The Artist’s Way
Please consider joining me, and many other creatives, on an Artist’s Way journey beginning June 28th, 2010. The journey is being hosted by Buffy (@azurebreeze) on Wurlwind, Yahoo, and Facebook.
Writing in Shorthand
Do you sabotage your writing by getting mired in details? Does finding the just-right name for a character or struggling with the specifics of a scene keep you from moving forward? These are some of the ways I’ve sabotaged my own writing in the past. If you struggle with this too, try writing in [...]
Lessons in Blogging: K.I.S.S.
Lesson One: I talk too much. That about sums it up. My posts so far tend to go about a thousand words, give or take. The first time I actively tried to write a shorter post, I failed. Aiming for 500 words, I fell short—or would that be long?—at 602. I guess I should [...]
It’s in the Bag
I grew up on words. My mother taught me how to read by writing each new word down on an index card. Many nights, I would sprawl out on the floor with my box of words and string stories together, composed of a single rambling run-on sentence that would span half of the family [...]
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Kimberly Gonzalez
reader, writer, freelance copyeditor & proofreader, foster & adoptive mom
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