Author Archives: aliceaudrey
Congratulations Sukie!
Sukie has stepped forward to take her bow. She is the one who wrote Something Old, Someone New, our first ever FanLit Forever winner. She had another entry that also did well in the round. Unless something radical happens, it looks like a story with a Holiday theme – you pick the Holiday – will be our next challenge. The poll for it closes Wednesday, so we’ll know for sure then. Personally, I’m thinking Fourth of July. Alice
Black Strap Tapioca
1/3 c. sugar 3 T. tapioca 1 T. black strap molasses 2 and 3/4 c. milk 1 egg 1 t. vanilla Mix the sugar, tapioca, milk, molasses, and egg in a medium saucepan. Cook on medium heat stirring constantly until mixture comes to a full boil. Set aside for 15 minutes. Mix in vanilla. Serve warm immediately or refrigerate and serve later. I love the texture and sweetness of tapioca, but flavor? It has one? So of course I’ve been […]
How to Help Make FanLit Forever Stronger.
Although we have enough people behind the scenes keeping the board running, we could still use your help to make FanLit Forever a wonderful place. For instance, you can let people know we exist. We need more people. Not just writers, we need people who are there because they love to read and want to see what we can do. Tell your online friends. Put a link to FanLit Forever on your blog. Mention it on other boards. Tell those […]
My FanLit Vision
I mentioned in a couple of places that I had a vision for FanLit Forever, but I don’t think I ever laid it all out. If fact, I know I couldn’t have because so much has become more clear for me as we’ve gone along. I want the FanLit Forever site to be first and foremost a community catering to writers. I think of it as being the cyber equivalent of a really good coffee house; the kind where people […]
Excuses Excuses
I suppose I owe my FanLit readers an apology. Or maybe I owe it to myself. I was decidedly half-assed about my FanLit entries for the first challenge. I can lay the blame for this on all kinds of doorsteps. I was too busy setting up the board, the rules, and the vision of FanLit Forever. I was busy getting my entry ready for the Golden Heart contest. I was trying desperately to keep up with a very active critique […]
The Winner Is…. Unknown.
If you are the one who wrote Something Old, Someone New please step forward and take your bows. You won! Due to a combination of miss-communication, untried procedures, and stupidity on my part, we no longer have the name of the person who wrote the story. We can come up with most of the others, but not that one. Now we know how to do this better, and won’t have that problem for Challenge 2. And for anyone planning on […]
Technical Difficulties
Hey, it’s our first ever round. You’ve got to expect a few glitches. But I will close all the polls today and post the winner of the First Challenge for FanLit Forever if I have to do it all manually. Alice
Prologues
I guess I’m just in the mood to pontificate. Don’t worry, I’ll be back to gerbil fair soon. This one’s for you, TessaD. If you read Romance novels you’ve probably read a ton of prologues and never even noticed. Reaching across my desk for my recently – read – and – not – yet – removed – from – the – house pile, I see that in the last two months I’ve read 17 books. Most are romances but a […]
NaNo and The Internal Critic
May is having a sort of writer’s carnival. She has invited people to write about writing technique every Wednesday, and let her know about it. She will post a link on her blog. Since Alice’s Restaurant is a Romance writer’s blog, I thought why not? So every Wednesday I’ll be doing a little something gleaned from my 30 plus years of effort. It’s too late to get my link in this week, but next week should make it in, and […]
What a Rush
I was over on FanLit, doing my civic duty by voting on the submissions when I realized there are authors hovering around the board, waiting for my input. Mine! Of course they don’t know it was me who gave the score and/or made the comment, but so what? I can have an impact on someone’s life Right This Minute. So different from the deep and delving critiques I do for RWA contest judging. I might have a bigger impact, but […]
News!
Or should I say gossip? Cat has finally put up her Tag blog. Still no response from Milady Insanity. Sigh. She does, however, have some good recipes up. MerryDay won 1st place in the Teelit – that’s Harper Teen FanLit contest to us old fogies – after having placed 4th in two previous rounds. Yay MerryDay! Tessa and CM are still slugging away at their WIPs. Hang in there, ladies. Sara is in wristwatch land. That’s what my dh calls […]
Attention Span of a Rodent
Let’s play Jeopardy. The answer is I have the attention span of a rodent. The questions are: A] Why are my blog posts often short? B] Why can’t I settle on one WIP at a time? C] Why does it take me so long to respond? and D] All the above. . Any guesses? . Alice
Quick Quize
http://www.gotoquiz.com/results/what_kind_of_reader_are_you I am, of course, Dedicated. Is there anyone here who isn’t? Alice
Maybe I should have named it Alice's Free Hot Lunch?
To everyone who surfed in looking for the song Alice’s Restaurant, my apologies. I don’t have words or music. When I named my blog Alice’s Restaurant I had no idea people liked to listen to the song on Thanksgiving, or that Alice was a real person who has owned more than one restaurant let alone that she was still alive. But as long as you’re here, why not say hi? . Alice
