Really Old
One of us is really old Crotchety and demanding Forgets she’s had her dinner And yells like she’s panhandling. Friends of every stripe despair Wishi...
Author: Kim
Kimberly Davis spent a lot of years sailing. She is currently a writer, editor, and teacher. She also designs websites and is the director at Madville Publishing.
Point of View Exercise
Part 1: Two Voices: Person #1 It was 5:59 a.m. as Larry made his way from the back storeroom up the big center aisle past the heaped sales tables to the glass d...
Third Person – Now in Past Tense, Then in Present Tense
She clicked a switch and the big electric organ hummed to life. She stuck her tongue out and moistened her lips and the rings on all of her fingers clinked as s...
The Catnip Wars
It’s come to it at last. Scuffles in broad daylight over the catnip patch. Fluffy Bum, who rarely ventures outside has discovered Miss Kitten’s well...
Writing for the Adventure Travel Market
by Kim Davis A freelance writer interested in adventure travel wrote me to ask: “Is there any room for professionals with these adventure jobs? Like you...
Immortals in the Fog
Why do people drive around in the fog with no headlights on? Do they think they are immortal? This morning we had to go through a thick fog on the way to scho...
Stoplight Fright
Two super-sized vampires ran the red light Looking neither left nor right. Pointing pick-up trucks like spears, They raced before the dawn. Red gash lips on sno...
Steering the Craft
In 2010 I belonged to the Madison County Writers Guild where we worked our way through Ursula K. Le Guin’s Steering the Craft. It was a lot of fun. Here&#...