If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! 31 Days of Being a Writer Day Six “Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary…
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 know I’ve been absent from my blog, once again, but I have accepted that while I’m in school I won’t be able to update as much as I’d like to. I’ve been extra busy this last week just trying…
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…
Where did the summer go? Some days went by fast, while others seemed to go on glacially. In May I was signed up to complete a summer course but for a number of reasons I decided not to attend university…
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…
