wp-spamshield domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /home/ii5ad04abu2u/public_html/downjotter.com/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6131Avoiding the Burial Plot Nothing kills a story like a lousy plot. Unless you are writing a series, everything needs to be wrapped up by the end of the story. If your protagonist gets distracted halfway through the story and never revisits the original storyline, then you’ve just added another nail to the coffin. But enough about all of that. The plot I’m talking about is just as important. Let me make it clear; I’m a jotter, not a plotter….
Supporters…Not Just For Athletes Anymore I’ve got my pen and paper—those are the writing implements that appeared somewhere between cave paintings and computers. I’ve got my ideas. I’ve got my reference books. I’ve got my coffee. That should be everything I need to write the masterpiece that will one day be compared to the works of Shakespeare…but it isn’t. I, personally, need one more thing. Fortunately, I have been blessed with that one more thing. I have supporters. While writing…
Writing Myself into a Corner Agatha Christie. Her name is synonymous with the mystery novel. Mention Louis L’Amour and westerns spring to mind. If I name a specific author—unless you are true devotee of that author—you will probably associate that person with a specific genre. But did you know that Agatha Christie wrote romance novels under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott? Louis L’Amour also wrote boxing stories, action adventure stories set in the South Pacific, and historical fiction that had nothing…
The Trail to Abilene Texas-1878 “Here comes the boss now.” “This’ll probably upset him a might.” “Upset him? Tarnation, boy! Ole Matt sees this and he’ll be hotter than a cat-house on nickel night.” “What have we got?” the newcomer asked as he reigned in his gray dun and dismounted. Matt Wilson had been driving cattle across Texas for the better part of a decade. Aside from the rigors of the trail, he had fought Indians, Mexicans, and rustlers, all…
Just Write Something This is a sentence. This is another sentence. Here is another one. A few more of these and it will look like a real paragraph. It won’t look like a big paragraph, but it will be a paragraph none-the-less. Few things are scarier than staring at a blank sheet of paper or computer screen and knowing that you need to fill it full of words. And not just any words, mind you, but words that people will…
Michelle Was Here! I’ve got a little notepad in which I jot down ideas for my blog. While traveling back home from Glady, I was adding the ideas for the past couple posts when my sister grabbed the notepad from my hand and wrote “Michelle was here!” My first thought was to shove her out of the van seat since she was sitting on the end, but I didn’t. I decided to leave it and see if it sparked any…