The deleted verse
You may have noticed that my book titles are borrowed from the lyrics of John Denver’s famous song about West Virginia “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” What you may not know—I didn’t!—is that there was originally one more verse that the lyricist Taffy Nivert Danoff and...Bill for compulsory science fiction in West Virginia schools | Books | guardian.co.uk
I think my home state has a darned good idea with this! I enjoy science fiction myself (old style Trekkie here!) and think it can be very mind-expanding. Go, mountaineers! A bill calling for science fiction to be made compulsory reading in schools has been proposed...Paint the town chocolate!
I was visiting my folks in my hometown of Lewisburg, West Virginia, when–serendipity!–I discovered they were holding the Seventh Annual Chocolate Festival. Since I am an unrepentant chocoholic, I insisted my husband accompany me to check it out. There was...What’s the point of a writing challenge?
Maybe I should explain what a writing challenge IS first. The most famous one I know of is National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) where participants attempt to write 50,000 words in the month of November. I find this virtually impossible on two counts: 1) November...Follow Nancy
