August 26: Kadena Library Conference Room, 10:30 This meeting will be a feedback session, which means that you are encouraged to share your work with group members for feedback. In particular, I would encourage you to email your requested submission for feedback to me (judith.mcneely@faculty.umuc.edu in Korea) or to Dave (who is on Okinawa) at least one…Read more Upcoming Okinawa Events for Summer 2017
Sex sells. Whether people are honest or not, they want sex. Some see it as something light and fun, others cradle it as something sacred and profound, but can it not also be fun and profound? For readers, unless it's a romance/ erotica--and those are two very different genres--there almost always needs to be a…Read more Sex in Writing: Part 1
As promised, the NaNo post. Keep in mind that this is the first time I participated and only found out about NaNo in September of this year. Now that we have ventured past the initial "thank-the-tiny-gods-that's-over" phase, or for you comic fans--I like to refer to this as The Infinity War--we can proceed with settled…Read more NaNoWriMo: All Good Writing …
For those that are in #Okinawa and participating in #NaNoWriMo or those that are part of OMCW, we are meeting at the Kadena Library Conference Room on Wednesday, the 8th, from 1600 – 2000. We provide a quiet atmosphere for you to think, write, and converse with fellow writers and authors. Feel free to join…Read more Come Write In
Something new from the Sci-Fi novel I'm working on.
At our bi-weekly Okinawa Military Community Writers meeting, Kyle led off the discussion with an exercise in developing the main idea of a short story, novella, or book. He posted about this and covered the 5 Ws that can help a writer summarize the story they intend to write. I hope to build on that…Read more Plots and Plans
Tackling one-sentence summaries for new ideas or completed works.
For lovers of dark fantasy, epic fantasy, heroines, or antiheroes, I am pleased to announce The Bearer of Secrets, the first volume in the Dark Legacy series. The ebook has been released on Kindle and KindleUnlimited. The following is the back jacket blurb: In a land healing in the wake of the Wizard’s War and…Read more The Bearer of Secrets
