Earlier 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
Read moreThis episode was all about appearances, ballet, and archery. The episode kicks off with Alexa walking by a lake with her famous sourdough bread in a bag, only to be stopped by a ranger. The ranger assumes that Alexa was going to feed the swans and tells her he needs to confiscate her bread, we then cut to Alexa arriving
Read moreThe job of a season finale is to wrap up the season’s story arcs and establish new ones for the second season (if there is one). I felt that this episode did a great job. The episode kicks off with both Magda and Angela struggling to have their clothing choices being taken seriously by Mrs. Ambrose and Nadia respectively. When
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