Clare Graith

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  • Vote for Paul

    Writer’s Tip #1 Paul was one of my older sister’s friends, but he was a gregarious type and didn’t mind hanging around teenage girls a couple of years younger than him. He was preppy when preppy was a thing. He had a real boyish charm, at ease, open. I remember him not because I had…

  • The Protagonist

    You don’t look for trouble. You work behind the scenes, unseen. Not everyone’s favorite, depending on who you ask. Though some say, ‘super nice’; others say, slow, aka dumb, weird, too quiet. When people talk about the road to success, you’re never on it, as far as they see. No one expects you to do…

  • Beyond Fences

                   The big house became our home five years ago when our son and daughter were old enough to ask why we made them move away from their friends. We were wise enough not to answer since really, how could we explain that success meant a bigger house and what was life without success? When…

  • Power of One Hundred

    A Story Form There are lots of things counted by one hundred. There are hundred-year storms, hundred-year floods, one hundred pennies in a dollar, one hundred “bottles of beer on the wall” according to the song and then there’s the one-hundred-word story. Not a child’s book, an actual story. I want to thank a recent…

  • Pitch the Story

    There are many milestones to reach on the way to publication. First one of course, is having a story to write. Most of what I write starts with an idea and not a story. The idea gives birth to the story. I’m a ‘Panster’, plotting as I go. More on the Pros and Cons of…

  • Joys of Veggie

    Have you ever had veggie bacon? Truth be told, vegetables and bacon really don’t belong together in the same sentence and it ain’t cheap. Just saying. It is lower fat though and well, it isn’t meat. We have recently discovered the joys of low fat eating. We went from using a stick of butter every…

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