WRITTING A SMORGASBORD

What does it mean when your writing tends to weave from one extreme to the next? Are you bipolar, or confused? Or maybe it’s the exact opposite – and you’re just extremely well rounded. I like to think its the later! Lots of writers like to stick with one genre. Others, like me, can’t seem…

April AND MAY WIP Writing Prompt Challenge (extended): The Temporary Insanity of our Empty Streets…. CONTINUED

Aww 2020 you cold hearted hag, what exactly are you doing to us? For the month of April my WIP monthly writing challenge has been: THE TEMPORARY INSANITY OF OUR EMPTY STREETS. Now that the month is drawing to an end, I’m scrambling for time to do literally anything and everything. Quite honestly, I’m really…

“minding our own business”

If the grass IS actually greener on the other side of the fence, then its because your neighbor spends less time looking into your yard and more time tending to their own. Or, maybe they’ve lived there longer and have spent a few more years primping and pampering their greens. After all, if you share…

Within #poem

A pawn in this game, We’re played and we’re slaughtered. Our energy flows, And by most we’re only bothered. Competition too thick, Our humanity gets chipped, We let ourselves drown, At the crack of a whip. But what if there’s more? If it’s hidden inside us. Yet to be tapped into, But, ohhhh when we…

#review Be Kind to Yourself: Simple Strategies for Deaing with Challenges, by Jane Stockwell

MY REVIEW 5 stars: Be Kind to Yourself is short, resonating, and very real. Jane Stockwell has taken her life experiences, and her extremely well read and knowledgable past, and she’s placed them into this intricate compilation of truths. This isn’t your average self-help book, trust me I’ve read several… most of which are repetitive…

WIP Character Challenge FEB:OUT TO SEA

For the month of February 2019, I challenge you writers out there to take the characters from your WIP and plug them into a scene where their personalities can really shine on the water… as in OUT TO SEA!! Have fun with it, as it IS a practice writing challenge, meant to polish your skills and introduce…

Because Encouragement SHOULD Be Personal!

A message from my daughter and I today: To focus on a better 2019 doesn’t mean more makeup and less food. It doesnt mean more filter apps, more ‘friends’, and more parties. It doesnt mean more debt to look good, or keeping up with the neighbors. Strip all that crap away, take what’s left —…

A Creative Writer’s Logic Is Often Wackie #amwriting

I think there’s more than one reason the majority of writers refer to themselves as ‘starving artists.’ It isn’t only about money. I mean, granted we spend hours and hours, and then even more drawn-out tedious hours tapping away on the keys of a board, and for what? To turn around and spend even more…

I’m Rubber and You’re glue

My dad used a really awesome saying all the time when I was a kid. To tell the truth, it drove me nuts. He’d always say it in a mocking sort of way. Like when I’d get mad at him for something or another, and I’d call him a juvenile name like “jerk” or “wad” or “dork” or…