642 Things To Write About

One of the ways I'm getting into the writing groove is by using an awesome book I got, 642 Things To Write About from the San Francisco Writer's Grotto.  Every day, I'm using one or two of these to turn on my brain and serve as exercises for developing ideas that sometimes stand alone, and sometimes relate to other things I'm working on.

In fact, I'm blogging those too, at a different blog, right here. You can see my responses to the writing prompts from the book, or use them to spark your own creativity! I'm learning a lot from the wild variety of prompts, and although I may not get to them all any time soon (642 of them!) I'm excited to see what comes of all the creative mojo they inspire.

--Kim

Find me on Facebook

Oh man, I have a Facebook page. What?! I'm not on Facebook personally these days, but I have an amazing social media helper in the form of my husband, Sam.

I'll be updating it with news as warranted, and with links to my blogs, and probably with whatever other cool stuff Sam and I come up with to share with the Facebook world.

If you want to keep in touch with me over there, here's the link, with my gratitude.

--Kim

Welcome

Well, it's a snowy weekend, one that we planned to be stuck at home throughout. The snow didn't turn up in quite the amounts predicted, but it's still a pretty great time to turn on the furnace, light a few candles and wrap up in blankets while making a new writing blog.

I've been a writer, professionally, if you don't count in-school fiction endeavors, for almost a decade now. A lot of the time, that's meant freelance writing and editing on everything from journalism to comic books. Lately, I'm more and more interested in making something of that early dream of writing books and stories, telling tales like the ones I've always loved to read.

That's where the name of the blog comes from, in fact. It evokes thoughts of the adventure and magic to be found in the fantasy and sci-fi shelves of the library or bookstore, the ones I'd always gravitate toward, searching for titles I hadn't read yet. I hope that my writing can help create that sense of wonder for other readers eventually.

While I've published a few things and edited a few published things, mostly comics in the creative realm, I have yet to publish a book of my own, and so that's my next professional goal. Of course, I have one in mind! It's as yet untitled (OK, it's been through a few titles and I haven't settled on one yet) and it's in its second, developmental draft right now. I'll tell you all more about that when the time is right. Until then, welcome.

--Kim Eggleston, 2/26/17