Note to my voracious readers:  I am sure most of you know this is fiction and could never happen, and didn’t happen and any names used are purely fictional. But then, with Ollie, you never know what is real and what is fiction, because he only allows certain bits of truth to be known, when he wants it known.  You see, Ollie is real, because our searching souls desperately want him to be real, w Read More

My Response to the Reader Prompt by Reader Rhian Joanne Prompt:  Write a love letter to a specific person or your dream person Joanne, you disappeared from my life, suddenly, a long time ago, and I never had the opportunity to say goodbye, or perhaps at least enjoy a few more precious moments together before you vanished completely. I thought you were easy to find, but more practically, I had Read More

The Old Man in the Swamp “I’ve got about fifteen minutes before you bring him in to my office, so I’m going to need the intelligence brief on the old guy, ok Susie?  Oh, and I need a diet coke too.  So, he pressed his diet coke button and got it. The Chief of staff then opened her brief case and pulled out a single sheet of paper and timidly handed it to POTUS. “One lousy peace of pa Read More

My Response to Reader Sha Reader Sha submitted this prompt: Teach everything you know This prompt is difficult but I have decided to simplify it into five simple teachings that I have learned in my life, or have been taught, that will guide us in the right way in life. First: The greatest commandment: Mark 12:29: Jesus told the religious leaders: Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your Read More

All 12 prompts have successfully hijacked my brain enough to tickle the sparkling tentacles of my cortical neurons to write something interesting. Some are challenging me more than others by their content. I will create a response to all 12, however, this will take me time. Please be patient. If you stop following the blog or take a break from reading, be aware, you may miss my response to your prom Read More

My Response to the Reader Vicky Writer’s prompt submitted by Vicky:  write about your traveling experience and beautiful views or something that made you smile. This is a tough one, because beauty is everywhere around us:  sometimes it is awe-inspiring and thrust directly in front of us, taking our breath away, and other times, it is hidden, but if we seek to find it, the beauty will find us. Read More

My Response to Reader’s Prompt from Kris “Write about fun ideas including little-known facts, funny conspiracy theories and favorite jokes” This joke I am sharing is in honor of my late mother, who believe it or not, told it to me years ago and it is one of the best, if not complicated ones I remember. She may have had a few sips of wine before she told me, I don’t remember,  but I loved her Read More

Thanks To My Loyal Readers for Excellent Writer’s Prompts. Please read carefully: I have received nine of them, and they are all excellent and they present to me different potential writing styles and genres that do tend to hijack the sparkly tentacles of my cortical neurons successfully. Congratulations to my readers who have submitted prompts.  I have accepted the challenge and will create so Read More

Reader Participation Challenge Someone reminded me that I wrote somewhere before: “I write whatever hijacks my brain.”   While this is true, my brain may be willing to listen to ideas suggested by my readers about what a future blog may be about. Some time ago, I asked my massive horde of voracious readers what were the favorite topics from SRCarson.com.  The number one answer was Ollie an Read More

Don ‘t even try it, they said.   Back in the early days of my writing-career hobby, I would attend writer’s conferences in various locations, trying to learn the craft from so-called experts and I took a few hard knocks with their reviews of my work.  But I always respectfully cursed them under my breath and walked away, then thought about the critique for a few weeks, and belatedly, finally under Read More