NaNoWriMo for Worthy Women Folk

I've been a member since 2009 and completed about 6 of my 19 attempts. This November, I'm working on WISE and WORTHY WOMEN FOLK, which includes animal tales: Little Red Hen, Hare vs Tortise, Rabbit in the Moon, Red Riding Hood, Spider Weaver, and Snake Princess; and classics like The Salt of Life, The Seven Swans, Rice Goddess, Taskuso, The Swarrow's Gift; and long epics as Durga, Li Chi, Lady Enida, Julnar of the Sea.

Many of these stories can be read on Wattpad.


I did not finish the 50,000 words, although finished Worthy Women Folk ready for first editing. Anyone out there in the vast web wanting to edit.  Contact me at ART@bobbiestoryportfolio.com in Subject put RE: 'Edit Worthy Women Folk.' 

The strangest thing I've ever googled for a story?

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Actually, 'google' is too complicated for me, and ads appeared, and sites appear who have acquired status for the top of google's list involving how many links and hits they get.

To find what I am searching for and not to waste my precious time getting lost on google, I use Wikipedia, better information, concise, and no ads. Well, the ads are run as information documents.

My Critic!

My grips with google, the advertising has gotten thicker and more often with all the pop-up ads. Google ads plugging up searches with ads and more ads.


I do google for book references and to get on Amazon.

The places I really write my stories.

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A bit late for October!

I write from my thoughts that float around in the space in my head, which is the stage around me. I see the characters, I hear the voices, signaling time to write.

I go to my writing room, stacked full of this and that I have accomplished, or work that I want to finish. This place is cluttered, which is a bit tiring. I focus on the screen of the computer. My search begins for the story document, and the writing starts. Then who shows up is my critic. She is haunting going on and on about this and that, spelling and grammar, what is wrong with this character, and that scene. She becomes a song in the back of my mind as the story unravels. Then the phone rings about a text, I continue to write. My husband comes in my writing space to say what he is doing. My cat comes into humor and calms me. All the while, the story continues to float through my thoughts, and I'm in the middle, watching, and hearing to catch every word.

The place I want to write my next story.

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If I could pick one place in the world to sit and write my next story, I choose a small cabin on a warm beach and in front of the vast, untamed ocean. I'm sitting at an outside table with my computer.

The day starts cloudy and warm, slowly turning hot. As I write, I observe the birds playing in the waves or looking for foods; watch the flies buzzing with news of this or that, and spy a lizard sitting on a rock beside me quietly warming. Boats move into and from a dock. A seagull stands on an orange circle on the railing of the walking path and beneath the bird is written, LIFE RING. I know I'm safe and can journey more into the story I must tell while life around me preforms as usual.

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My writing taking me by surprise!

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Well, not writing specifically; verbal storytelling came in with a blast. Twenty years ago, the computer I used wiped from within and the floppy disk all my children's stories, a first draft novel I finished, and a family tree I had spent 3 years compiling.

 As I recovered on my couch, a thought ran through my mind, "Time for you to stand up and tell a story." To stand up and tell one of my creative stories, never. A disgusting, impossible idea, farther more where to start.

I never heard a person tell stories, only lectures about specific subjects. (This was before YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, google blogs, before the cell phones and the videos we watch.) I did find a program at a Park and Recreation Center. Finally at Dominican University in San Rafael, I found a whole series on "How to Tell a Story." Verbally telling was precisely like writing a story; characters, plots, and scenes. And, there were thousands of public domain free stories, the TRADITION TALES, from all over our world to preform.

SO, I stood up and told a story.


NOW . . . TODAY - I write traditional fractured stories. That means I re-write or re-tell folklore by adapted, enhanced, re-imaged, embroidered, modified, elaborated, and embellished characters, scenes, and make subplots. I fabricated to suit my time and to create a better read. All folktales, fairy tales, legends, fables, myth are analogy, metaphors, or simile we use in writing. Traditional tales are the bones of today's movies and novels.