Pam Portland, novelist and blogger

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Fifty states in the rear view mirror and Hundreds of blog posts ahead of me. Find my real-life adventures and my #OnTheForest novels at PamPortland.org

Time Travel Authors – 21 July prompt: Anything your characters time travel to fix?
The cover of the book, “The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt” by Edmund Morris.
A woman sits on a low wall above Crater Lake, with a layer of smoke along the horizon.
Time Travel Authors – 19 July prompt: Any similarities across your works?
Time Travel Authors – 17 July prompt: How honorable are your characters?
Time Travel Authors – 15 July prompt: Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: fail/loss)
Time Travel Authors – 13 July prompt: A character's favorite color
Time Travel Authors – 11 July prompt: Saturday excerpt (optional word: breathe/breath)
A screen shot from the Merlin app showing eight detected birds including an Ovenbird and a Yellow-rumped Warbler.
Time Travel Authors – 9 July prompt: What's a lie a character believes about themselves?
A Chihuly sculpture beneath the Space Needle at night.
A wooden sign reads, “North Rim Visitor Center” and is surrounded by snow and an evergreen behind it.
A hazy sunset creates colors of peach and yellow across a minimal landscape with stalks of western wheat grass in the foreground.
A wide view of a red-brick fort with windows flanked by green shutters, manicured lawns, white wood railings, and the American flag raised on a flagpole designed like the mast of a ship.
A blueish-gray wooden sign reads, “Entering Blue Ridge Parkway National Park Service United States Department of the Interior,” with the profile of a mountain peak, a road, and a single tree.
A simple wood-framed arch marks the access to the North Country National Scenic Trail with a narrow dirt path surrounded by deciduous trees.
A brown sign reads, “Franz Jevne State Park Minnesota Department of Natural Resources” with evergreens and deciduous trees in autumn colors behind it.
A tent on a low hillside with a small, alpine lake, small evergreens, and a green Jeep Wrangler beneath blue skies and high clouds.
Two small boys stand in between three Revolutionary War-era canons with a scenic, upstate New York vista behind them.
A teenage boy and his mother don helmets as they stand on Segway transportation devices labeled as being at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
A scenic view from the tower of a suspension bridge over a dark river and a wooded landscape with the peak of Cadillac Mountain to the right edge of the image along the horizon.
Time Travel Authors – 7 July prompt: Memorable weather in your story
Time Travel Authors – 5 July prompt: First time someone time travels
The signature of William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition in Montana. Wm Clark July 25, 1806
The back of a pheasant in full color
Time Travel Authors – 3 July prompt: Main character's appearance
An English Bulldog smelling a vermiculated poppy
Three flags waving in the wind, with the US flag in the distance, the Blackfeet Nation in the middle, and the Canadian flag in the front.
Time Travel Authors – 1 July prompt: Introduce your time travel story (optional: like a summer action movie)
Time Travel Authors – 1 July prompt: Introduce your time travel story (optional: like a summer action movie)
Really tall grass
An English Bulldog sleeps on its back.
Time Travel Authors – 29 June prompt: Author's choice/promo
A lower-deck view of Comerica Park in downtown Detroit. Bases are loaded. Skies are blue. Seats are to the right of home plate.
Wm. Clark July 25, 1806
The entrance to Commerce Park for today’s Astros v. Tigers game.
Snow on the tops of the distant Beartooth Mountains and vibrant trees in the foreground.
Time Travel Authors – 27 June prompt: Saturday excerpt (optional word: proud)
Two white butterflies on a stalk of oat grass
Time Travel Authors – 25 June prompt: Youngest character
The Boca Chica Lighthouse at Biscayne National Park
a pint of dark beer outside with the Grand Tetons
An English Bulldog sleeping on its back with its tongue hanging out of its mouth.
Time Travel Authors – 23 June prompt: Do any characters use certain words/phrases/speech styles? (NaraMoore)
Time Travel Authors – 21 June prompt: Parents or mentors in your story
Time Travel Authors – 19 June prompt: Do characters travel through space, or just time?
A swallow sticks its head out of a birdhouse.
Lunar eclipse with branches in the foreground
Time Travel Authors – 17 June prompt: Wednesday POST-SIZED snippet (optional word: glimmer/shine)
A cover of the best book ever, "The Monster at the End of This Book Starring Lovable, Furry, Old Grover"
Time Travel Authors – 15 June prompt: Characters' mental health
A scene at the end of President Barack Obama's second inauguration when, just before leaving the dais, he stops to look out at the National Mall and take in the moment.
A refreshing adult beverage sits on a wooden window sill. There are mint leaves and lime curls in the glass for garnish, and pine trees in a sun-filled yard behind it. The taste, while not visible in the image, is refreshing and summery.
Time Travel Authors – 13 June prompt: Saturday excerpt (optional word: rich/poor)
Time Travel Authors – 11 June prompt: Robots, non-humans, etc. in your story
A boy stands in front of a large painting
I scenic view of the horizon with a long butte and refinery.
A woman and two boys sit on a low wall outside a brick fort that is completely surrounded by water.
Two fingers appear to crush George Washington's sculpture on Mount Rushmore.
A marker for the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail showing the two explorers in profile.