Author Archives: aliceaudrey
My poor, nearly neglected web site.
Someday I will return. I promise. But not with Front Page and not until after I’ve sent in my Golden Heart entry. Tomorrow I’ll give the answers to Tag, I’m It. Alice
Choices, Choices
Amy Garvey on Romancing the Blog has a few things to say about choice. It recalls to mind a trip to the grocery store. Not just any grocery store. Woodman’s in Madison Wisconsin. They make Walmart foods look like a Quickie Mart. Oh, to have a store like that around here. Alice
Tag. I'm It.
Meankitty tagged anyone who played on her … um, his? … blog, so I’m going to go ahead and do it. Here are five “interesting facts” about me, or at least they are facts if you want to look at it that way. One is a complete lie. Can you guess which? 1] I once sold my home in a yard sale. 2] When I turned 13 my hair went from so limp it wouldn’t take a curl to just […]
Grazing
My son gave me a bunch of little kisses while I was saying good bye one morning. These rapid-fire kisses can be a bit annoying, a bit like a cow grazing. I was going to complain, which I have done before, when he looks at me with big bovine eyes and says “mooo”. Alice
It Isn't Fun Unless It's Fair, Reprise
Why is it so important that a writing contest be squeaky clean in the way it’s run? Why must the efforts to prevent cheating be loudly proclaimed? Because writers as a group are unusually obsessive. We need to know that whatever rank our piece landed at has some legitimacy. Knowing that my first effort achieved spot 205 out of 223 entries because it sucked may be hard to take, but to think it ended up there because some b*tch with […]
Ramen Noodle Soup
Sarah, you think I put a lot into my cooking? Hah! I do this one a lot more often than I do eggrolls. 3-5 cups of water, brought to boil in medium pot 1/2 to 1 cup frozen vegetables 1-2 Ramen Noodle soup packages 1-2 eggs All measurements are guestimates. [like you hadn’t already noticed.] I don’t generally bother with a measuring cup for this one. Toss frozen vegetables into the water while waiting for it to boil. Add ONE […]
It's Alive!!
I can not tell you how thrilled I am with the warm reception the FanLit Forever site has received. So many people have transferred over from Yahoo, and so quickly! The boards I thought would work well are jumping. Thanks to ChrisJournal the place looks great. Plenty of people have stepped up to the plate to help out. It feels like this idea I had took on a life of it’s own. Good. I can’t wait to see how the […]
Announcing FanLit Forever – The Writing Game
We did it! With a lot of help from ChrisJournal and a little from Krardon we created a web-based board in which to hold our version of Avon’s contest. The board is great, if I do say so myself. It isn’t simply a place to post a submission or bits of conversation like Yahoo. It has places in which to discuss the publishing industry, places in which to post your personal work in progress, places for every aspect of the […]
Happy Halloween!
The kids are off to play and I’m sitting here with an enormous bowl of candy. Hmmmm…… Alice
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." – Thomas Edison
Story of my career as a writer. Alice
Hired by Email
We have dialup service. Two of us entered the FanLit contest which means for the last six weeks our phone line has been constantly tied up. We have received complaints about it from employers, teachers, doctors, family members, and friends. I didn’t care. I was busy writing, submitting, rating, commenting, inviting, and generally having a grand old time. Little did I know we almost cost my husband a new job. Luckily the same medium that messed us up saved us. […]
Let Them Eat Cake
Cat was wondering if anyone had a good, moist chocolate cake recipe. So I asked my mother. She says the recipe on the back of the Hershey’s Cocoa can is her favorite. She went on to say that where it comes to cake you have do a balancing act between ingredients that tenderize and those that provide structure. If you add more of something that tenderizes then you have to also increase whatever gives structure. The tenderizers are oil, shortening, […]
Confession Time
I offered anyone who I knew to be of legal age a scene that continues my entry Signed and Sealed from the point where Damien blows out the candle. I actually got a request for it! Now for the confession. You guessed it, I haven’t written the scene yet. I have it mostly done, but still need a few parts. In motion. *blush*. To anyone who wanted to see it I will get it to you as soon as I […]
FanLit Withdrawal
I had a blog titled “Patience the Wimp” and another titled “The Five Star Fairies”. While writing my entries, then trying to support them I was too busy to finish either blog. Now that we are down to the final ten those topics seem passe. Just as well. I am so far behind in everything. My crit group really caught fire while I wasn’t looking and my CP – Hi May – has been waiting forever for the next installment […]
Needs More Conflict.
I find myself putting this in the comment line a fair amount this round. I can just hear the authors who receive it sputtering about how it’s the final chapter, already. Why can’t they just tie up a few loose ends and be done with it! Boy, I feel your pain. I really do. And I was tempted to simply go through the laundry list of issues that needed to be dealt with to make the story work, but I […]
