Today is Saturday, February 21, 2026

Good Morning,

Wow! I’m starting to really enjoy these good mornings.

🙏🏽Small Talk: Do you have anything fun planned for the weekend? I’ll be studying and watching the weather channel because a you-know-what is on the way. And you probably already guessed it, another snow storm!!

📝 In case you missed yesterday’s post, here’s what I shared.

“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.” -Ursula K. Le Guin

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Great News

I just finished my first novel. It’s called Writer’s Quest: A Triptych. It’s an experimental fiction novel inspired by the triptychs that hang in Catholic churches. Just like triptych paintings have three panels that tell one story, Writer’s Quest has three distinct parts that tell one story. The art doesn’t end there; the story explores the metamorphosis of a woman who’s in search of her mom. So fun to read! Buy it here.

The Greatest Tool We’ve Been Given

“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.” -Ursula K. Le Guin

Our imagination is the greatest tool we’ve been given as human beings. It can be used improperly, but when trained and focused, our imaginations can save lives; heck, I believe they could save the whole world. The thing about our imagination is that it needs downtime to work. We’ve got to take intentional time away from our screens to let it flow. Once we get that thing going, there’s no limit to the things we can create.

Great News

I just finished my first novel. It’s called Writer’s Quest: A Triptych. It’s an experimental fiction novel inspired by the triptychs that hang in Catholic churches. Just like triptych paintings have three panels that tell one story, Writer’s Quest has three distinct parts that tell one story. The art doesn’t end there; the story explores the metamorphosis of a woman who’s in search of her mom. So fun to read! Buy it here.

Writer’s Cure

“I am an artist… I am here to live out loud.” -Emile Zola

There’s something about being a writer that adds flavor to the world. Life’s not so boring anymore once you start writing. Even the hardest parts of writing are not due to flavorlessness. The most flavorless part of writing is when you don’t write anything at all. The world grows dull and your body ages much faster when you quit writing. There’s no sound evidence of that, but that’s how I feel. You’ve got to write in order to feel and heal and bring yourself to do something that’s quite extraordinary. If you’re bored or tired of your life, the best cure is to write.

Great News

I just finished my first novel. It’s called Writer’s Quest: A Triptych. It’s an experimental fiction novel inspired by the triptychs that hang in Catholic churches. Just like triptych paintings have three panels that tell one story, Writer’s Quest has three distinct parts that tell one story. The art doesn’t end there; the story explores the metamorphosis of a woman who’s in search of her mom. So fun to read! Buy it here.

Is There No Must In Writing?

There is no must in art because art is free. -Wassily Kandinsky

I think we can agree that this works for painting. Where I think we’ll find some division is how this applies to writing. At first thought I totally jumped on this writing, but then after second thought I wasn’t so sure. We do have to have a linear word structure, understandable sentences, and some basic grammar. Then we have great writers like E.E. Cummings who follow no rules at all, and you know what? His poetry tells us something and makes us feel something too.

So what do you think? Do you think that this idea works for writing, too?

If you haven’t heard

I just finished my first novel. It’s called Writer’s Quest: A Triptych. It’s an experimental fiction novel inspired by the triptychs that hang in Catholic churches. Just like triptych paintings have three panels that tell one story, Writer’s Quest has three distinct parts that tell one story. The art doesn’t end there; the story explores the metamorphosis of a woman who’s in search of her mom. So fun to read! Buy it here.

Letting Go

New moons are a great time to let go. It’s not required, but it helps to have a designated cycle where you are intentional about letting something go that might be weighing heavy on you.

You carry some things for a reason. Maybe they kept you safe. Maybe they’ve become part of your identity, so letting go of one aspect means letting go of 15 other things. Maybe you’re flat-out just ready to get rid of it.

No matter where you are in your letting go process, there’s one important tool you must show up with, and that’s compassion. Letting go isn’t some machine you can just switch on and off. It takes self-reflection and attention to detail. That’s why it’s not always easy. There’s nothing wrong with you when it feels like letting go isn’t working. It just means you get a chance to practice self-compassion.

Do You Need Words?

This thing we have

it’s biblical. Feels as sacred as the womb of a woman who saw

Jesus.

You know

this thing we have runs deeper

than most.

I lay my bones at the foot

of our holy place.

Chest against chest.

Bones against bones

clatter and dance.

Tongues dipped in wine

dipped in kisses.

Fingers searching fingers in linins.

What is this thing we have you ask?

All I can say is that

We are humans being

humans.

-Saschia

👇🏽If you liked this poem, you’ll love this novel. 👇🏽

A Poem

Desire Eyes

They shift and blink and stare.

Some day they may find you here

free from chains,

shaking loose the nightmares

that keep you cooped up

in the house. I know you’re stuck in that insane

loop.

Sit still so I can untie you.

-Saschia

Ealier on Substack I posted…

The truth is, regardless of whether there was fanfare about it or not, the minute I acknowledged my desire to be a writer, I was changed for good. I wrote Writer’s Quest knowing that writing was my way through this world. I wrote it to sleep. I wrote through depression. I wrote through good times. This novel is etched with all the stuff life has offered me. Telling the story using different narratives helped me to shine a light on the different perspectives of the way life unfolds.

Let me show you.

Book I: The Book of Anie-Ma is Literary Fiction Magical Realism
Metamorphosis as a Hinge is a Narrative prose poem
Book II: The Book of Senta is Fantasy
Arrowmaker as Hinge 2 is an Oral Telling
Book III: Revelations is Speculative fiction

Writing Communities

We get to see the world through our own eyes and we get to participate in our own ways. The awesome part is that we also get to contribute what we see too. That’s the fun thing about writing; it can be all of that in one. Yes, there’s a lot of time alone putting words down on the page, but there’s time to share your thoughts during creation. There’s time to get feedback. And there’s time to gift all your hard work to readers around the globe.

And you know what, I found the perfect quote by Annie Barrows and Mary Ann Shaffer from The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society that said, “We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.”

And isn’t that it!

Writing alone and with others is the point. To help expand our perception just a little further than it was when we started. To explore new ideas even when they get under our skin. To take risks and have people right there next to us.

It feels right.

Writing communities feel right.

What are Your Interests?

When it comes to writing, I think it’s important to draw from your interests.

It’s interesting; I was in class and I sat next to my friend; we even did a group project today. It was fun. I really enjoyed it. The thing is that the class project was so interesting that I didn’t have to think so much about the words I was using. I just shared and listened.

We go into our writing space and we pour our thoughts onto a page. In that moment when we’re pouring, it doesn’t matter so much what we say; it matters that we get it out.

These words aren’t supposed to be inside us forever.

They are supposed to be developed and shared with those who are willing to hear us out. When we draw from our interests, we are better able to pour the words out.

What are you interested in? Let’s see if we have some in common!

Great News

I just finished my first novel. It’s called Writer’s Quest: A Triptych. It’s an experimental fiction inspired by the triptychs that hang in Catholic churches. Just like triptych paintings have three panels that tell one story, Writer’s Quest has three distinct parts that tell one story. The art doesn’t end there; the story explores the metamorphosis of a woman who’s in search of her mom. So fun to read! Buy it here.