Beach Read Giveaway! Happy Birthday, PCW!!

Hello Readers,

This whole month, we’ll be celebrating PCW turning two! Each of us will have a different way of celebrating, but we’ll all have some sort of giveaway or prize.

Yummy Books

second fiction stack

What makes a yummy book, a book that you can’t put down and stay up until the break of dawn to finish? Lets take a look at that list:

Goodreads Giveaway! Cookie Encounter!

Hello There,

I thought I’d let you know that until March 15, I am running a giveaway on Goodreads for Cookie Encounter! Enter to win one of two signed copies.

https://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/172931-cookie-encounter-a-chance-encounter-inspirational-romance

Good luck!

~~Michelle

I remember the day …

I remember the day I wrote my first fiction story. I know that sounds odd, but I do. Well, I had written a skit or two in high school. And there was probably a paper here and there that was fictional, but not a real fiction story.

Seeing It All…Maybe

As of today, the 23^rd of December, 2015, I have officially seen it all.

I drove into a perfect parking place at the local St. Louis Bread Company, and decided to finish listening to a wonderful Christmas carol playing on JOY FM. We were in the midst of what we used to call a “gully washer” in my home state, and I hoped that by staying in the car a few minutes more maybe the rain would slow down a bit and I wouldn’t have to regret the fact that I forgot my umbrella at home.

Fiction Bundle Giveaway!

I love giving gifts. Especially at this time of year. If you love receiving them, then it might be your lucky week!

Searching for Mr. Goodread

Writers read. I tell myself that each time I go to the Kindle store and tap Kindle Unlimited. Over one million books to choose and have I ever been indulging in some unexpected pleasures.

Courage—More Than A Seven Letter Word

If you’ve stopped by Paddlecreek before, you know it is the collaboration of four writers. Four very different people who have grown close as they have struggled with the in’s and out’s of this thing we love and, at times, don’t love—writing.

We started out over ten years ago. Over coffee, we  compared styles, asked questions, laughed (alot), and put hundreds of words down on paper. We wrote a “Prompt” each time we got together (back then, we were the Bowler Road Writers) and read it OUT LOUD. That took courage, because writing as fast as we could for 30 minutes and then sharing our thoughts with each other wasn’t always pretty.

Quite the Character: How to Make Characters Real

Who are your favorite characters? Why? If you love Snoopy, is it because of his great imagination? Or Superman, because he saves people and has vulnerabilities? How about Cinderella who overcomes a nasty stepmother and gets rescued by the prince?

Word or Scrivener?

Sitting here this morning with my fingers on the keyboard, I ask myself, “Self, if you had to choose between Microsoft Word and Scrivener for use when writing, which one would it be?” Self sits as if frozen for what seems like minutes and then, from the recesses of her coffee-begging brain, a thought stirs and a light bulb (why are those still the outdated incandescent?) flickers on and grows brighter.

Aha! A thought is born!

The index fingers stir, the middle finger joins in and a word appears on the screen. “Both.”