31 Days of Being a Writer Day Six “Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine…
31 Days of Being a Writer Day Five “Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.” ― Stephen King I adore having an abundant lexicon at my disposal.…
31 Days of Being a Writer Day Four “Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague” – William Safire I’m sure you all caught the irony of the quote I posted. If not… this post is for you. I…
31 Days of Being a Writer Day Three “The writer is both a sadist and a masochist. We create people we love, and then we torture them. The more we love them, and the more cleverly we torture them along…
31 Days of Being a Writer Day Two “Reading was like a drug, a dope. The novels created moods in which I lived for days.” ― Richard Wright FICTION – fic-tion / noun 1. a : something invented by the imagination or…
31 Days of Being a Writer Day One “The road to hell is paved with adverbs.” – Stephen King The kids are almost up from their nap time and I have class in two hours so today I…
I feel like the last few weeks came and went way too fast. I started school again on August 27th and I’ve been totally consumed by it ever since. This semester I enrolled in an advertising class, which is turning…
If I could go back in time and impart some wisdom on my teenage self I would tell her to dump her boyfriend and stop thinking about boys all together. Teenage boys don’t really contribute much to a successful woman’s…
I’ve been waiting for a few spare moments to dive into Mama Kat’s Writing Prompts… and the moment has finally arrived. This week had plenty of short and sweet prompts so I chose my favorite of the bunch: “Do…
In celebration of the Mermaid’s 60th birthday, Chicken of the Sea is saluting sixty-somethings who embody what it means to be sensational with the Chicken of the Sea 60s & Sensational contest. Chicken of the Sea’s 60s and Sensational Contest  asks…
Mama Kat’s Writing Workshop had a poem prompt recently where you were to fill in the blanks and complete an ‘I Am’ poem. The link to the poem is here. I actually thought this was pretty fun… so here’s mine.…