I Won, Yippee, I won
Photo of ice-covered mailbox in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, USA. February 14, 2007. Photograph taken by Joy Schoenberger with a Pentax K100D Digital SLR camera. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Today I’m...
View ArticleA New Contest
Hello to everyone. Today I’m making a big announcement. I am sponsoring another writing contest. The topic of this contest is National Pride. It can be fiction or non-fiction, and no more than 1200...
View ArticleAttention Writers: Flash Fiction Contest
I thought we could have some fun writing a Flash Fiction story of no more than 400 words around the topic of July 4th. It can be any genre you wish, any topic, but keep it clean. All entries must be...
View Article“Warning” A Challenge. Can you do it?
Here’s a challenge for you. Write a 100 word flash fiction, any genre. You must have a main character, beginning, climax and ending. If you will send them to me at shirley_mclain.net, I will post them...
View ArticleA Short Story (The Bluff) and Vacation
Hello everyone. I am off to North Carolina and the beach today. Before I leave I decided to post a short story I wrote a couple of days ago. It’s a true story based on a lesson my six year old taught...
View ArticleFlash Fiction
I love writing flash fiction. It lets me stretch my writing muscles a bit, but not feel overwhelmed. Today I wrote a flash fiction called Football Fantasy. I was required to use six words: alarm,...
View ArticleThe Time is Here…..
I’m so excited and can’t keep my old heart from jumping up and down. I finally have my book of short stories on Amazon. It’s called, “Shirley’s Shorts and Flashes”. You can read just about any genre...
View ArticleSix Easy Grammer and Format Tips
The following blog is from BubbleCow which I received this morning. Because of my editing on Princess Adele’s Dragon, I seem to be paying a lot more attention when I see these helpful tips. I wanted...
View Article6 Steps for Writing a book Synopsis
Since Princess Adele’s Dragon has now been published I have to write a synopsis of the story. I decided to look for some help and found this blog by Marissa Meyer. It broke the synopsis down into...
View ArticleThe Workaholic (Short Story)
Hello, everyone, I wrote this a couple of days ago and thought I would share it. It is a story about a man who let work rule his life. I hope you enjoy it. Shirley The Workaholic James stood by...
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