A Christmas in July--er, August story! Lily was so nervous. She looked in the mirror to see how her Christmas shirt had come together, but the present sitting on her bed, the floofed green tissue paper standing at attention caught her eye instead. That was what she was nervous about. But not her sweater. Well, … Continue reading Squids and Sweaters and Gifts, Oh My!
#FlashFictionFriends inspired by Sarah Dessen titles I gasped when I saw the prompts of #flashfictionfriends for June. Sarah Dessen and her stories have my heart forever and ever. The novel Along for the Ride is about Auden visiting her dad and stepmom and baby sister for the summer in a small beach town in North … Continue reading “Along for the Ride”
Flash Fiction Magic: In Love is here! When Tessa met Austin it was not love at first sight. Two weeks in and she’d finally been scheduled the dinner rush (groan) and placed on the fry baskets (double groan). The intake of orders had slowed for like a second when this tall, unknown co-worker wearing a … Continue reading When Tessa Met Austin
Always keeping the novel simmering on the writer stovetop In my writing community’s slack, we have a channel called “daily accountability” where character/novel prompts are posted. There was one posted the other day to write our novel like a recipe. It was inspired by the fabulous Catie O’Neill, author and friend, who loves cooking in … Continue reading Leah Novel as a Recipe
Books I Read during the months of September, October, and November Our fall season consisted of home adventures. [Excuse me while I rifle through my digital memory to jog my brain about what we did this season. Aww Substack has photos. There we go!] Wow! In September I started drafting my Leah Novel again. October … Continue reading What I Read // Fall 2024 Edition
This story started out as a contemplative beach scene. Then it became a story about a miniature tabaxi, Kettle, finding a mermaid on an island. And that's what I was set on refining for this week's story, but on the way home from the fair, I listened to "Long Live" by Taylor Swift. My favorite line is: "...for a moment a band of thieves in ripped up jeans got to rule the world" and I wondered if I could write a story about a band and name their song "Washed Ashore." I shared the idea with Ant and he was intrigued by it! So I ran with it and you have the story you just read. It's magical to me what two words can become and how many ideas can come from just two words.
The One Where I Make it Easier to Find the Words I've Written on Books Apparently I write about books a lot haha I just love them a lot is all 🙂 https://tracyerler.com/2015/08/09/hello-world/ Post 01 // The One Where I Write About Artemis Fowl and Childhood favorites https://tracyerler.com/2016/02/11/bob-god/ Post 02 // On Bog (Goff) and … Continue reading All the Book Posts!
The one where I love on my favorite Contemporary YA novels =D Well, what started as a late #meetmybookcommunity April prompt post, has turned into a spontaneous blog post because each of the 15 books* in this photo are near and dear to my heart. I've all of them except Always and Forever, Lara Jean … Continue reading Happy Belated Teen Literature Day!
Books I read in December (2022), January, and February. Happy Spring! We're only like a month and a half in. I'm looking forward to creating the Spring Reads post because I haven't read that many books yet, so I'll get a jump on it later this week. I do love how they turn out. Since … Continue reading What I Read This Winter
Because writing a novel is a gift. Real-time updates from the final three days of NaNoWriMo This post is made up of the updates I posted on my writer's Facebook page and Twitter as I stopped to take breaks. I get real numbers crunchy in these posts. It was fun to post these updates. Monday, … Continue reading The Giftstretch // Day 28
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