Photo by Flickr on Pexels.com One of the best, and sometimes the worst, things about being a writer is having a very active imagination. How often do you meet someone for the first time, or overhear a piece of a conversation, and immediately withdraw from the world around you to concoct a story or poem in your… Continue reading The Hokey Pokey
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On Writing: The Importance of Word Limits
Photo by Jess Bailey Designs on Pexels.com I don't know if I'm in the minority here, but I love word limits. When I'm writing based on contest or submission guidelines, my process is to write everything I want, and then go back in with the Word Limit Sieve and shake out all the excess. Then, when I've… Continue reading On Writing: The Importance of Word Limits
No Strangers Here
Photo by PICHA Stock on Pexels.com It's an amazingly small world we live in, isn't it? If you didn't know it before, just hop on Facebook and go through all your friends to see which mutual friends you share. It's ok; it's Facebook - if you're not snooping on people, you're doing it wrong. Thanks… Continue reading No Strangers Here
Quitting
Photo by Valeriia Miller on Pexels.com I am proud to say that I am a quitter. Two years ago I made the decision to not buy another pack of cigarettes, a few months after that, I began to see an improvement in my breathing, and just recently I began to actually like that I made… Continue reading Quitting
On Writing: Handling Criticism
Photo by Suzy Hazelwood on Pexels.com Recently, I asked a friend to take a look at a poem I had written. I don't write poetry very often (I average two a year), but I was pretty proud of this one. So proud I thought I might try to submit it somewhere, and I've submitted exactly… Continue reading On Writing: Handling Criticism
On Writing: How’s NaNoWriMo Going for You?
Photo by Maksim Goncharenok on Pexels.com Today marks the halfway point of National Novel Writing Month, otherwise known as NaNoWriMo. By now, some of you are patting yourselves on the back in between gulps of your fourth cup of room-temperature coffee and going, "By George, I think I've got this!" Others of you are re-calculating just how… Continue reading On Writing: How’s NaNoWriMo Going for You?
On Writing: A Gift to Your Future Self
Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com When I sat down to write something for this blog, I had to flip through page after page of my daughter's doodles to search for a clean sheet. (I'm organized enough to pre-plan my blog posts, but not organized enough to keep clean paper on my desk.) I was nearing… Continue reading On Writing: A Gift to Your Future Self
On Writing: NaNoWriMo
Photo by Lum3n on Pexels.com Today marks the start of National Novel Writing Month, otherwise known as NaNoWriMo. If you're unfamiliar with this event, it's a challenge to writers to write 50,000 words by the end of November 30. This equates to 1,667 words per day, or 2 to 3 hours of actual writing, watered down by poor word choices,… Continue reading On Writing: NaNoWriMo
On Writing: The Not-Knowing
Photo by cottonbro on Pexels.com As we find ourselves in the spookiest time of the year, I, like many of you, probably, have been reading a lot of scary stories. My favorite kind are the ones that make me feel off-balance the whole way through, before... BAM! ...revealing the sinister truth at the very end.… Continue reading On Writing: The Not-Knowing
Things I’ve Written While Half-Asleep, Lonely, and Bored at Writing Conferences
Photo by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels.com ~Breakfast tacos so good, people don't care they're being sold at a gas station ~Falling asleep again ~Wish I had coffee and a nap ~Asleep again. And again! A MILLION TIMES! ~A house covered in coke tabs. ~New Braunfels is an old German town settled on the San Marcos… Continue reading Things I’ve Written While Half-Asleep, Lonely, and Bored at Writing Conferences
