Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

Voices are elusive things, sometimes. I spend a good portion of my writing time trying to find mine.Thing is, I am not sure I will recognize it when I find it. Also, is it okay to have more than just one? Because, as far as what voice(s) I do write in, when I am writing [...]

I’ve started on some stories of when I was young – the problem being, as usual, that too many come at one time. I’ve sort of figured out how to handle that with yWriter, but I don’t want to get all hung up on tools again and wind up not doing what I need to [...]

I’ve just started my second year at the University of Phoenix, Axia (or junior college) division, so I thought it would be a good time to give my opinion of the school. There is a lot of information out there, and potential misinformation, and I might as well add to it, no? Bottom line: so [...]

The one I have isn’t mine, you know. Or, it is for all legal intents and purposes – it’s on my driver’s license and leases and all that type of stuff. Not to mention my website. But it’s still not mine – the last part of it, anyway. It’s my ex-husband’s. I didn’t change my last [...]

Although, lately, I’ve been mostly leaving stuff alone and just puttering around here, on this site. I am not sure if that is a good or a bad thing. A good thing at the moment, I think – but a bad thing in the long run if it means that I’ve just lost interest in [...]

About every other month an older Mexican lady wanders door to door in my neighborhood selling whatever she has on hand – fresh picked fruit, tamales,  whatever. As far as I can tell she doesn’t speak a word of English, though she understands some, and her Spanish is way too fast for me to follow, [...]

For someone who plans on writing novels, I have an odd problem; fear of fiction. Or, I guess, fear of writing fiction, because I quite like reading it. When I was very young I wrote stories all the time, and sometimes even illustrated them. The older I grew, though, the less I wrote and the [...]

So, the book is finally taking shape – in my head, at least. I have the main plotline(s) down and the way it is set up is perfect for a series. If I can do it right, it will have all the elements that I was looking for; relevance to today’s world, yet lots of [...]

Once I identified the problem – that I have too many things rushing in clamoring to be written about, thus causing the dreaded “writer’s block” – the solution seemed simple enough. Create a thought pot to just dump stray thoughts and ideas in, and free my mind for greater things.  Adam & Eve / The [...]

You know those people – they say they get up before dawn, grab their coffee and then sit down and clatter out thousands of words before the morning paper even hits the door?   Yeah, that’s not me. I so want it to be but I am not, I have discovered, an early morning writer. [...]