Comments for Write Up Our Alley

Comment on Censorship Comes Home by Linda

Linda — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:58:18 +0000

Hurray for you, Kay!
Glad your higher instincts to speak the truth won out.

Comment on Censorship Comes Home by doe

doe — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:09:00 +0000

let those censors harrumph and grumble; let them roar their terrible roars. write the truth. truth wins. if i ever get my latest draft polished and published, a lot of peeps are gonna be crabby. sad…but not sorry.

Comment on Censorship Comes Home by debbie

debbie — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:04:52 +0000

I love this ending, Kay. Brava.

Comment on Writing like Water by Kate Duke

Kate Duke — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:35:09 +0000

It’s so interesting how swimming makes your ideas flow (sorry about the pun). I’ve found the shower is sometimes a useful tool for that purpose. Curious. Why does water have this magic power?

Comment on Leigh Ann Tyson’s “Office” by MW Penn

MW Penn — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:15:48 +0000

Leigh Ann,

Your desk is so beautifully organized and your pose is so peaceful.

ENVY!

Marianne

Comment on Is this a messy desk contest? by alice

alice — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 02:51:02 +0000

Sam is very cute. And I love your desk, mess and all!

Comment on Is this a messy desk contest? by MW Penn

MW Penn — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:17:50 +0000

Kay — sad that pit bulls have gotten such a horrid reputation. I can vouch for yours; she is a bundle of sweetness.
Sam’s only thought on writing is to take advantage of every second that I’m not writing. When the phone rings, he immediately begins to nudge my free hand. “Thank heavens you’ve stopped pounding that keyboard. Time to scratch my ear!”

Comment on Is this a messy desk contest? by kay

kay — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 16:01:57 +0000

“The first thing I do with my writing,” I tell kids at schools, “is read it aloud to my dog. We both benefit. She wags her tail, glad to be communicating. I hear any overlong sentences, repetitive words, cliches, and the flat-out stupid spots in my draft.”

Marianne - I’ve always had dogs, often poodles. My husband and I showed Chessapeake Bay Retrievers and competed in Obedience. I taught dog training classes for years. This pit bull is the sweetest, brightest, most honest dog I’ve ever known. A pit bull! Astonishing to me, still.

I love the hidden extra clues to our existances that show up in these photos. Does anyboidy else write with dogs? Cats? Iguanas?

Comment on Is this a messy desk contest? by MW Penn

MW Penn — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:36:52 +0000

Kay,
Just checking my blog — did it really post — and the photos — thank you Debbie — and I noticed our best buddies, our dogs. Your’s is much tidier than mine. Is this a clue to our existence???

Comment on A WANDERING WRITER by Marilyn Taylor McDowell

Marilyn Taylor McDowell — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:10:52 +0000

Hi Kathleen - So nice to see your smiling face. I had to laugh - and breath a big sigh of relief - over messy desks. I’m now blissfully finding my way through stacks and stacks of paper. My dilemma - how to file? How does one file ideas? A very old wooden trunk will do. My husband was ready to pass it along and I claimed it. I plan to paint it in some funky fashion fitting its intended purpose. It will hold those newspaper clippings, those bits of napkin that hold entire plots, photos, magazine pictures, pages from teeny tiny notebooks that traveled in my purse, and … and .. well - you get the picture. Trying to organize ideas into neat file folders as if they were accounts and vendors has been thwarting my every attempt. BIG containers - general headings. That’s my newest solution. Wish me well.