by John Rea-Hedrick
Saturday, November 28, 2009

I said goodbye to my friend today.
Rather more like to the promise of a friend, . . . Continue Reading

Corporate life has kept me very busy these past few days!

Nevertheless, I’m still making time to post this this teaser opening from my current (and only) WIP – Raven Academy.

Better late than Wednesday! . . . Continue Reading

Yes, I hear voices in my head.  I like them.  In fact, I hear them on purpose!

Allow me to explain.

When I was in middle school I never much enjoyed reading textbooks.  I was, and still am, easily distracted by *shiny things* and there was nothing very exciting or interesting in most textbooks to capture my attention.  Often when faced with a large reading assignment, my attention would wander before I had completed it.  The result was I wasted a lot of time rereading the sections I’d already *read*.  Very frustrating!

One day I stumbled on a great trick for managing my distractions . . . Continue Reading

by John Rea-Hedrick
Thursday , November 19, 2009

Most of my life has been spent
with my eyes below . . . Continue Reading

I almost let this Wednesday get by without a Wordly Wednesday post!

Visit the links for a little Wednesday Wordplay!

http://wordsmith.org/anagram/advanced.html

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/

http://www.wordspy.com/

http://www.wordplays.com/p/index

Know of any other great wordly websites?  Leave a comment and leave a link!

(reposted from my private blog: Tuesday, April 3, 2007 – In response to The Aliens are Out to Get You!! from the YA highway on November 13th, 2009.)

After seeing a large bird circling over my old house last night, . . . Continue Reading

I love to mull over the words on the printed page . . . Continue Reading

Okay, so it’s almost a Teaser Wednesday! Nevertheless, it’s after 5:00pm and my corporate hat is firmly OFF. So before I head home for the day, I wanted to get this post out. Habits, both good and bad, are formed one act at a time, right? I’ll try to make Teaser Tuesday a regular habit. If not a weekly one, at least monthly for a start.

This is the prologue from my WIP ‘Raven Academy’, book 1 in the chronicles of The Citadel of Kidrodell. It’s not much of a teaser, but its a start. . . . Continue Reading

Another creative writing experiment!

Around or so a year ago I wrote a short story humbly entitled ‘Life’.  It was based on the germ of an idea which I expanded into an 800 word flash fiction piece for a writing contest.  I came across the story last week in my OneNote archives and found with time and distance I wasn’t happy with it after all.  (I’m not sure if that’s part of the process of perspective or if it’s a symptom of my inner critic.)  I still found myself drawn to the theme and so I wasn’t content to simply leave it in its newly recognized, inglorious form and wanted to resurrect it (pun intended).  However, rather than simply rewriting it, I decided to reincarnate it (yes, another pun) in a different form – a poem. . . . Continue Reading

Wednesdays mean ‘Roadtrip’ at YA Highway.  While the constraints of corporate life have prevented me very much lunchtime writing this week, I thought I’d squeeze in this quick post before heading into the weekend.

Click here to read this week’s YA Highway’s Roadtrip Wednesday post.

Let me begin by saying ‘My thoughts exactly!’ in response to a comment from Michelle Schusterman (YA Highway member) that it might be better to ask “how does your genre choose you?”

I’ve always felt that *trying* to write into a particular genre was a little like trying to write into a particular market.  . . . Continue Reading