Picture it, a week ago: I'm seated at my office desk, so ready for the day to be over. It was Friday, I daydreamed of lazily lounging at home all weekend and wanted nothing more than to be away from people. I was exhausted, cranky, and spent into the negative range of my energy levels. …
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You’re So Vain You Probably Think This Character Is You: Writing Enemies In Your Work
We've all experienced amazing friendships. You hang out, you talk not just about every day life but your inner secrets you only trust to them, and you share not just classes, interests but hardships, too. They get into a car accident? You're right there on the scene to drive them home after their totaled car …
Quills and Quiet
That, my friends, is a hedgehog, an animal I've come to cherish, adore, and relate to on the highest of spiritual levels since obtaining my own as a pet, my prickly pear Stella Luna. Before taking in one as my own, I felt like a hedgehog could easily fit into my collection of totem animals, …
Heights and Horcruxes
They say do something that terrifies you every day. I don't know who "they" are or where they get off on giving this suspicious piece of advice but we all have to admit when you encounter a situation that speeds up the heart and spikes your blood with jittery adrenaline, it reminds us how alive …
Short Stories Galore
Anne Lamont writes in her how-to-write book, Bird by Bird, (if you haven't read this, find it NOW, one of the most important books I read about writing) that the only thing we can do to write is to get started, no matter how shitty the first draft is, because all first drafts are essentially …
Not a Choice, But a Calling
Good morning, Lovelies, or afternoon/evening, whenever you find it fit to crawl out of bed on a Saturday. Doing a little bit of a mental getaway in the town of Roswell, GA, while the husband is doing a bit of clinic work for his job. Offered for me to keep the car, to go …