Before I am Famous

literature is something we infer after the story is told

Dressing Up

What is your favorite Halloween costume? I thought about this some time and I already talked about the dead construction worker. There is another costume I liked. I had this white dress that was supposed to go with a ghosts mask. I got rid [...]

Proximity

The haze that is the sun pushes us inside
The shorter days in autumn keeps us closed
the snow, wicked and whipping locks the door
succulent raindrops is only another reason to stay
Inside, in front of a screen where the world
brought to us in pages of pictures and blurbs
being whoever we want to be, creating a [...]

My First Guest Posting

Hello all, yesterday I did my first guest post. I am a contributor to Applachain Greens but I haven’t written in that blog forever. I never knew if I would be worthy to write in another person’s blog so I never asked and no one has ever has asked to post in mine. When David [...]

Living like Hemingway

If you are are like me you probably dreamed at some point when you are an established writer that would you jet off to Florida and sit amongst palm trees, composing the next bestseller, drinking mai-tais and migling with the locals. Or maybe that is just me.
If you areinterested in villas in Florida for sale [...]

And the Winners Are…

Good morning. This is a quick post to announce the winners. First off I want to say thanks for taking the time to comment and enter the contest. Your words mean a lot to me. SO with out further ado.
First place for 1000 Entrecard credits is
Blog for Beginners at thou shall blog
Second place [...]

Brochures

When you are at a rest stop or restarant and see Brochures don’t you just have to pick them up and look at them? I do. It is this weird thing that I have. I can be anywhere and I will just have to look at them. The brochure can be about anything and I [...]

Some Troubles

Since, I revised my mystery story and I am ready to send it out again. The only problem is I don’t know where. I thought that it would be a good match for Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine but now I am not so sure. The story is a little off for the mgazine. I looked [...]

3 Years and Counting…

Today is Before I am Famous anniversary! Maybe the urls have changed but the content is still the same. Wow I can’t believe I made it three years. Very exciting. I haven’t been blogging for 3 years steady when I didn’t have internet access I didn’t blog so they are gaps maybe reaching a few [...]

Just a Friendly Reminder

Hey folks this is just a reminder of a few things that will be wrapping up this week!
Exquisite Corpse- Looking for submissions that end this week 7/31/08 Theme is BEACH and the line rule is A 6 WORD LINE CONTAINING THE WORD “TO”
Entrecard Contest Contest ends today at midnight. Get [...]

WOOF Winners for 7/24/08

Fiction - Jenn – “The Drawing”
About Writing
Lisa Alber – “Suspense and My Dog: A Lesson”
Tammie McElligott – “Female Characters - Check Your Weight!”
QuGrainne – “write on wednesday, thursday as usual”
Poetry - Jennifer M Scott - “Combustion”
Brought to you by PlotDog Press with “FIRST DRAFT - Intervention Chapter 2”
Here are  the winners.  I know you were  [...]

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