Second time's a charm?

I just got my first NaNoWriMo pep talk email, which means National Novel Writing Month can't be far off! I seem to have gotten sidetracked last year. Perhaps my new routine will be more conducive to writing the 50,000 words necessary to produce a worthy novel(la)! Anyone else out there participating?

Assignment - Labor Day!

For all my writer friends out there, here's a challenge! Select one of the photos below and use it as inspiration for a poem, or short story, or character sketch that you write over the Labor Day weekend. I'd love to read what you write (pocketjoey@gmail.com). And feel free to pass along the challenge. Who knows? I might be able to come up with some sort of reward for your LABOR!

A new blog!

Hello All! An update is coming soon, but I wanted y'all to know about a blog I've been asked to write in English for an Austrian newspaper. Please check out GASTSPIEL ("Guest Performance") at http://www.meinekleine.at/gastspiel

If there is enough interest in the blog (i.e. if there are enough "hits"), the Kleine Zeitung says it will publish my own page in the newspaper!

Thanks for your support!