Blue Fire Drabble

One of the writing communities I participate in has a challenge every month.  The rules for the challenge are to write a 100 word (or shorter) piece that is complete and can stand alone.  The idea is to have either a beginning, middle, and end like any story, or a joke with a punchline, or something along those lines.

This month's challenge was "blue and/or fire."  Meaning you can use blue as your topic/word to include, or fire, or both.

Sneak Peak: A glimpse at my Camp NaNo April 2013 Novel

I crept along the ground in my fox form, knowing I would be less visible that way and could escape easily if they did manage to spot me.  Hunting werewolves was very similar to hunting natural wolves: one stayed downwind of them, kept out of sight, and made as little noise as possible.  This group was very aware of their surroundings, but very ignorant of magic as far as I could tell.  After watching them for almost a week, I was ready to make my strike and test their resolve and resilience.  I needed to eliminate the candidate that would be the biggest threat to the one Queen Órblath wished to see ruling the wolves.

I have successfully Conquered Camp NaNoWriMo!

My Goal: 50,000 words

My Final Count: 60,674

What I Learned:

I actually can manage to do it all.  Not only did I exceed my word count this month, but I didn’t make my husband a NaNo-Widower (that’s  first actually…), I spent time with friends, I hung out with my parents while in town during the week, I made every Tuesday write-in (we started in November and just never stopped…), and I managed to edit my friend’s doctoral desertion twice (once for content and once for formatting).  And that was one really long sentence.

Earning More Camp Badges

So in my last post I told you about my planned adventure into Camp NaNoWriMo.  We're coming up on the halfway point soon, so I thought I'd drop in to tell you how I've been doing in camp, and post an excerpt from my novel here for your reading enjoyment.

Camp NaNoWriMo

This month, I’m going on an adventure.  I’m participating in CampNaNoWriMo.  There will be lots of writing, a few merit badges, and by month end, a completed novel.  Camp is very similar to November's NaNoWriMo, except that it's held in April and June, you pick your very own word count goal (I’m going for 50K anyway), and you are encouraged to ‘rebel’ if you want.  I’m rebelling in that I’d already started the novel prior to April 1^st.  I'm not counting any of the words already written towards my 50,000, but it's still an acto of rebellion.  8-)  Many others are writing scripts, screenplays, short story collections, memories, non-fiction, and more.

Werewolves Don’t Believe in Dragons?

This is the prompt from my last post: And you thought dragons didn’t exist…
Word Count Goal: Less than 500
Final Word Count: 492

Title: Werewolves Don’t Believe in Dragons?

Prompt: And you thought dragons didn’t exist…

I'm going to try to start posting one writing prompt, with my response, each week.  I may actually manage it too, since I'll be accountable to someone that I see every week.

Writing February 26, 2013

Today's writing is from the Write Now Prompt for February 12, 2013 from Today's Writer:


“I’m never doing that again.”


 This little scene shows some characters from a novel I'm working on.  I hope you enjoy it.

Reduction Prompt

So I'm obviously not managing my once a week goal so far.  I'd lower my standards, but that doesn't push me to actually get anything done, so I'll try to actually get something at least posted once a week, then i can push myself to post writing once a month too.


This is a prompt a friend shared with me the other day.  The goal is to reduce and distill your writing.


Step 1:
Write a 500 word story.

Step 2:
Don't look back at what you wrote.  Now write the same story in 250 words.

Step 3:
Don't look back at what you wrote.  Now write the same story in 100 words.

Step 4:
Look back and how the story changed as you reduced the number of words used to tell it.



I haven't tried this out yet, but I may in the coming week.  If I do, I'll be sure to post the results.

Writing Prompt from Today's Author

I'll be working with writing prompts from a variety of places, but one of them will be Today's Author.  You can visit them yourself here: Today's Author.

In addition to being a generally interesting blog for writers by writers, they post "Write Now" prompts encouraging you to write, and to share some of that writing if you'd like.  So I took the suggested five minute minimum and tried to write a complete scene using the prompt and here's what I've come up with.

This is the prompt from February 5, 2013, which was "I think you broke it."

Here's my take on it.

Starting Out

Welcome to Reka Writing.

I've decided, fairly spur of the moment, to challenge myself a little, and start a writing blog.

My goal is to post a snippet of writing at least once a week, and to share helpful links, blog posts, and the like that relate to writing and all the various things you have to do after you get the words down on paper.

I hope you'll enjoy the journey with me.

Reka 8-)