by Karina | Apr 23, 2023 | Current Events, Uncategorized, Writing tips
NOTE: Deadline extended to August 1, 2024, for publication in 2025. I’m compiling a collection of stories on how God inspires our writing and our writing lives. It’s directed primarily toward Catholic writers and has a combination of saints, first-hand...
by Karina | Dec 1, 2021 | Uncategorized
As the year comes to an end and I think about all the stories that are still in my head, I was inspired to write this song. Rena Shannon, a fellow member of the Catholic Writers Guild, and I were talking about having too many characters telling us their stories. Sung...
by Karina | Oct 27, 2021 | Uncategorized
My husband and I were listening to “Chemical Worker’s Song” by Great Big Sea, and we joked that it would be hilarious to rewrite it for Star Trek redshirts. The next night, I woke up with the song in my head. CHORUS: And it’s go, boys go, with...
by Karina | May 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
I get hit with a lot of spam, which I love to mock butSpam otherwise, ignore. Usually, they are offering me money from the UN. I recently got hit with a trifecta: Spam 1: I was impressed. This is the first time someone ever sent a diplomatic agent my way with a box...
by Karina | Mar 31, 2021 | Uncategorized
The first thing Ellie did upon entering her quarters was to turn the temperature down five degrees. Then she downloaded the bridge logs into her computer and started to play them, but sitting in the chair made her think of the times she’d been sitting there with Todd...
by Karina | Oct 14, 2020 | ST:HMB, Uncategorized
Captain’s Log, Supplemental That time machine should come with better directions. We got chapter and verse about how not to interfere with events while in the past. We got told how to record events. No one done mentioned that you should not record the events of...
