Clumsy Virginia Hemingway – an adventure in short story writing

Today’s #BEDM prompt is Adventure (Share a story, tell us what adventure means to you, interpret creatively). So I’m sharing a little creative writing with you today. My little adventure story 😉
Disclaimer this story was written using this story generator

Clumsy Virginia Hemingway
A Short Story by Jamie Misty Campbell

Doris Ramsbottom had always loved industrial San Francisco with its vain, vivacious volcanoes. It was a place where she felt calm.

She was a generous, generous, tea drinker with curvaceous fingers and ample moles. Her friends saw her as an ashamed, aggressive animal. Once, she had even rescued a striped puppy from a burning building. That’s the sort of woman he was.

Doris walked over to the window and reflected on her wild surroundings. The rain hammered like bopping puppies.

Then she saw something in the distance, or rather someone. It was the figure of Virginia Hemingway. Virginia was a clumsy teacher with scrawny fingers and hairy moles.

Doris gulped. She was not prepared for Virginia.

As Doris stepped outside and Virginia came closer, she could see the bumpy glint in her eye.

Virginia gazed with the affection of 6901 grateful giant goldfish. She said, in hushed tones, “I love you and I want a pencil.”

Doris looked back, even more cross and still fingering the weathered record. “Virginia, yabba Dabba Doo,” she replied.

They looked at each other with lonely feelings, like two kaleidoscopic, knotty koalas hopping at a very hilarious birthday party, which had indie music playing in the background and two cute uncles jumping to the beat.

Doris studied Virginia’s scrawny fingers and hairy moles. Eventually, she took a deep breath. “I’m sorry,” began Doris in apologetic tones, “but I don’t feel the same way, and I never will. I just don’t love you Virginia.”

Virginia looked fuzzy, her emotions raw like a short, slobbering sandwich.

Doris could actually hear Virginia’s emotions shatter into 9915 pieces. Then the clumsy teacher hurried away into the distance.

Not even a cup of tea would calm Doris’s nerves tonight.

THE END

Hehe did that give you a giggle? I generated 3 or 4 before picking this one. Some of the results are hilarious.

All about me #BEDM

Read more about Blog Every Day in May here.

So today is day one of Blog Every Day in May (#BEDM) for 2015 and today’s topic is Introduce Yourself. Hmm sharing all about me. Well here’s my currently list for this week, giving you an insight into me right now.

Watching – Game of Thrones S5, Supernatural S8

Reading – The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo

Listening – Paperclipping Roundtable podcast

Making – Mother’s Day cards, monthly PL spreads

Feeling – tired, sore

Planning – Miss A’s first birthday (what? it’s in August. It will be awesome lol)

Loving – autumn: getting out the winter woollies and cooking comfort foods

Blog Every Day in May #BEDM 2015

Excited to be doing this again. You can find all the dets here, follow along on Twitter with the hashtag #BEDM, take part yourself. Check out my writing from last year.

Blog Every Day in May

Here’s to Blogging everyday in May, interspersed with my regular ramblings 😉 I’ll be back tomorrow with the first prompt. See you then.

P.S. Let me know if you are taking part, I’d love to pop on over and say hi 🙂

Biannual Blogathon Bash

It’s that time again – the Biannual Blogathon Bash. I love doing these as I (usually) get heaps done over the blogathon weekend. You can read all about the blogathon here and check out all my previous blogathon posts.

Biannual Blogathon Bash JanuarySo this is my kick off post for the January blogathon.

My list of what I want to get done over the weekend (yay it’s a long weekend here)

  1. Take part in the Instagram list (my photos – 1,2,3,4,5)
  2. Network over at the blogathon Facebook group
  3. Clean out my inboxes – delete, respond or file as needed
  4. Print blog planner & get in my planner
  5. Do a couple of blogathon mini challenges
  6. Check post SEO
  7. Make sure all images & links are there and working

Keeping the list smaller this year. 🙂

Oh and hello to anyone who is new to the blog via the blogothon 😀 Leave us a comment so I can say hi

It’s a bloggy weekend

Well, here we are again the Biannual Blogathon. Can you believe the last one was January? Where has that 6 months gone?

Biannual Blogathon Bash

What is the Biannual Blogathon?

You know all those items on your Blogging To Do list? Those things you’ve been meaning to get to but haven’t had a chance? Now’s your chance to get a large amount of them done!

I will be hosting two blogathons a year, one in the winter and one in the summer. They will be held in January and June. The event will take place on a weekend and will run for 72 hours. 8am Friday to 8am Monday EST.

The next one is June 20-23,2014 – sign ups open May 9

Read more here

This time around I’ll be working on a to do list here and over at From the Wolf’s Den. Some of the items may be the same on both lists others may be different.

My to-do list for Nightwolf’s Den

  • remove old blog now I’m fully moved over to this one
  • check old posts for broken links & missing images
  • update media kit
  • work on review (which I did have scheduled for last week)
  • work through some of the Blogathon mini challenges
    • Photo challenge
    • Setting up a newsletter
    • must do blog tasks
    • StumbleUpon 101 (June 2013 mini challenge)
    • Writing a series or theme (June 2013) – planning something for 2015
    • Food photography (Jan 2013 mini challenge)
    • Making recipes printable (June 2012)

My to-do list for From the Wolf’s Den

  • check old posts for broken links & missing images
  • write up some posts and schedule them
  • work through some of the Blogathon mini challenges
    • must do blog tasks
    • work on categories (Jan 2014 mini challenge)
    • StumbleUpon 101 (June 2013 mini challenge)
    • Writing a series or theme (June 2013)

Not sure what else I’ll get up to but we’ll see.

And we’re done

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Woo hoo. Managed another Blog Every Day In May (albeit with a few scheduling hiccups along the way)

You can read all my posts by clicking BlogEveryDayInMay here or over in my Tag cloud in the sidebar

Hello to all the new readers & readers who have been here for awhile. Leave me a link to your blog and I’ll pop on over and say hello 😀

My PL wish list (May 2014)

This list could get really, really long but I’ll keep it to what I really want this month. Things I would actually use in current projects not just buy & leave sitting around 😉
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  • The Daily Stamps (digital) at Peppermint Creative. All 5 versions (so far). This is the May set
  • Peppermint Creative LIP: Hello Let’s Go 3×4″ Journal & Filler Cards (digital) for my BYS album
  • Personal Yearbook Mini Kit for Miss K’s yearbook I plan on starting this year cause she started pre-kindy this week!
  • Cats Theme Pack for a mini album I want to finish on our cats. Started way back when I started scrapping in 2005!
  • School Theme Pack for Miss K’s yearbook.
  • List cards from Becky. Not sure what project I might use them in but I do want them LOL

What’s on your wish list right now?

BBQ goodness

Another week, another theme – National Barbecue Week.

What’s your go to BBQ food?
Me – chicken & ham kebabs, potato salad, chips, layered garden salad. Not really a steak or snag girl. Much prefer chicken kebabs or maybe even a bit of seafood.

Keep an eye out over the next few weeks, cause I’ll be sharing the kebab recipe and the salad recipe.