D E Hibberd Blog
David E Hibberd writing blog

Today, with 31 minutes to spare, I finished the new blog for the IWL website. I have set it up to provide our members with information about our upcoming conference in September. Each week I will be adding a feature profile for our presenters. It is good to have that completed.

I’m trying to get the blog working on the IWL website. Not having much success. I’m hoping to use this post to determine where certain files are kept.

It took some fiddling around, but I worked out the problems I had with getting the blog ready for the IWL site. Now I just need to verify that I have all the current info before getting it up and running.

Earlier this month, my wife and I brought our grandson, Tynon, and our granddaughter, Tayla, on a trip to Utah.  They got to see their great, great, great, great grandfather, Lorenzo Dow Young at the This is the Place Monument. They experienced their first drive-in movie, explored a dinosaur museum, saw a 3-D movie, and visited Hogle Zoo.

I am working on the Idaho Writer’s League website preparing updates for our 70th anniversary conference in September. I stopped at the Idaho State Historical Society on our way home from Utah and found some items from the early days of the IWL which we will use at the conference.

Currently I am working on a collection of stories about my life. Each story looks at difficult situations I experienced as a youth and again as an adult.

Depending on space limitations, the book will contain 13-15 stories and will be about 128 pages long. The stories have all gone through various revisions and are now in the final revision stages. The current stage of revisions include adding dialog and incorporating more of the senses.

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There are many things going on in my life that have shoved my blogs into the background.
I am working on a collection of stories about my life which I am preparing for publication this fall. My stories have all gone through multiple drafts and now I am working on building in more dialog, sensory information, and other fiction techniques to give them a greater sense of story.
The Idaho Writer’s League keeps me busy. I am the League Treasurer, the webmaster, and serve on the 2010 Conference Committee.
Some memory lapses prevented me from logging into my blog site due to a forgotten password. I’m looking into allowing subscribers to my blog to generate original blogs and not be restricted to comments on my blogs.

On June 30, 2009 I completed two entries for the Idaho Writer’s League writing contests. The first entry was for the Nonfiction Book Contest. The working title for my book is “A Bumpy Road.” I have 13 stories which I have initial drafts completed and some in the polishing stage. One completed story and part of a second finished story went in the submission.

My other entry was a short story submitted to the Open Juvenile contest. I received praise for that story from the editor of Idaho magazine, Kitty Flieschman. I had submitted the story to the Idaho magazine Fiction contest in January, 2009. It didn’t win, but Kitty has encouraged me to submit it again.

Recent updates to the Idaho Writer’s League website have kept me busy, so I haven’t done anything here. Since I have more writing to do on the book, I’ll sign off.

I have written a number of memoirs looking at my childhood and my life as an adult. In them I typically address a specific topic, such as car problems, and write about events on the topic that took place in my youth and similar events that happened to me as an adult.

My goal this year is to compile some of these in a book to publish this fall. Toward that end I have identified 13 stories which I have written that I will include in my book. Most of these stories were written for writing contests and have limited word counts. My book won’t have word count limits, so my next goal is to expand on the stories I have written. The plan is to add from 500 to 2000 words to each story.

The first story I worked on has gone from 1215 words to 2353 words. With the second story I am working on I have added about 300 words and I am still working on it. Ultimately I expect each story to have 2300 to 3500 words.

Greetings,

I’ve been working on the blogsite and have made some additions and changes. The font color for the “Home” and “About” links were so close to the color of the bar they were located on that you could hardly read them unless you clicked on them. It took some playing around to identify the correct line of code to change and then find a color that would work.

I have added a few items to the sidebar and have provided for new users to register and login.

Welcome to the D E Hibberd Blog powered by WordPress. Life at my house can best be described as hectic. At the beginning of the year we moved our daughter and her two children who have taken over the upstairs and relegated us to the basement. In order for that to happen, we are working on converting our laundry/furnace room into a laundry/furnace/kitchen. In addition to that we are upgrading our downstairs bathroom with a corner tub to replace the leaking teacup tub. The kitchen floor is in, the walls and ceiling painted, the wall cupboards installed, and the remaining cabinets, counters, and sink ready to install. With the cabinets in place we now have room to walk around the basement without needing to turn sideways.

During the past few years I have written a number of humorous memoirs about growing up and my married life. I am compiling these into collections for publication in the fall of this year.

Thanks to events in my life and the lives of my family over the past six months, I have plenty more to write about. Among them are moving two children during the heavy snows of winter, a daughter’s bout with e coli, a son’s appendectimy, another son’s sinus surgery, and my wife’s brohchitus and pneumonia. Life is interesting.