In earlier blog posts, I talked about my decision to try a new type of virtual run challenge, the Conqueror Virtual Challenges, as well as my completion of the following challenges: I have since completed my twenty-eighth Conqueror Virtual Challenge, Mount Kilimanjaro. The Mount Kilimanjaro Virtual Challenge takes participants “through the beautiful landscapes of the tallest mountain in Africa.” I
Read moreDescribe a scene in which something enigmatic yet intense is happening. Don’t tell us what is happening.** Good Intentions When I agreed to this deal years ago, I had good intentions. I’d share my wisdom, provide gentle yet firm guidance, and save money. My good intentions flew out the window after twenty minutes. I was weak. I lost my cool,
Read moreEarlier this year I entered the NYC Midnight 100-Word Microfiction Challenge, an international creative writing competition that challenges participants to write original 100-word stories by giving them a specific genre, action, and word assignment, in 24 hours. Every writer is placed in a specific group based on the genre, action, and word assignment they are given. The Challenge’s judges pick 15 writers
Read moreEarlier this year I entered the NYC Midnight 100-Word Microfiction Challenge for the fourth time. NYC Midnight’s 100-Word Microfiction Challenge is an international creative writing competition that challenges participants to write original 100-word stories by giving them a specific genre, action, and word assignment, in 24 hours. Every writer is placed in a specific group based on the genre, action,
Read moreIn earlier blog posts, I talked about my decision to try a new type of virtual run challenge, the Conqueror Virtual Challenges, as well as my completion of the following challenges: I have since completed my twenty-seventh Conqueror Virtual Challenge, Kokoda Trail. The Kokoda Trail Virtual Challenge takes participants “from Kokoda town to Owers’ Corner through Papua New Guinea’s extraordinary
Read moreIn earlier blog posts, I talked about my decision to try a new type of virtual run challenge, the Conqueror Virtual Challenges, as well as my completion of the following challenges: I have since completed my twenty-sixth Conqueror Virtual Challenge, Torres del Paine. The Torres del Paine Virtual Challenge takes participants on a “circular route filled with endless valleys, sprawling
Read moreIn earlier blog posts, I talked about my decision to try a new type of virtual run challenge, the Conqueror Virtual Challenges, as well as my completion of the following challenges: I have since completed my twenty-fifth Conqueror Virtual Challenge, Banff. The Banff Virtual Challenge takes participants on a route “from Lake Louise to Banff” where along the way they
Read moreThe job of a season finale is to close off the season’s story arcs and establish new arcs for the next season (if there is one). My Life is Murder has always been self-contained with no season-long story arcs, however this finale is unique as it is the final part of the series’ first ever two-parter episode. The episode kicks
Read moreThis episode is all about a fancy country club, a widow clique, a murder in a hyperbaric chamber, and a walk down the memory lane of Alexa’s past. We kick off with Alexa going to meet Harry to get the details of the case of the week – Charlie Scott, 61, killed in an explosion of a hyperbaric chamber in
Read moreThe episode is all about family – real and made, for the victim, murderer, and Alexa. The episode kicks off with Alexa running into courier, Enzo (who was a main player but not the murderer in Season 2, Episode 8 – Hidden Gems). Enzo delivers her a wedding invitation to her mother’s wedding, only to discover it was two weeks
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