Jayne

Cake Decorating Videos

I’ve spent the last couple days obsessed with cake decorating videos. So far, my favs are the ones with tons of flowers on top. I also love the ones with the decorative edges. I don’t know much about cake decorating and I don’t have much of an interest in doing it. However, I admire thoseContinue reading “Cake Decorating Videos”

Journal Collector

I’m one of those writers who collects journals and writes in them. I want to fill them and replace them with new ones. That is a part of my writers life, to have writing everywhere. Mine, others, quotes, letters, journals, an online cloud filled with poems, thoughts, books, inspo, and all things writing. What aboutContinue reading “Journal Collector”

Art of Writing

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you. Ray Bradbury from Zen in the Art of Writing You know what, I’ve been thinking about this post. The question I’m left with is, “What if you enjoy your reality?” There was a time when I wrote to escape my reality. And for whereContinue reading “Art of Writing”

Drunk on Writing

One more lunch with Jayne in the bag. Today I asked, what you would do uninterrupted? I know handsdown, I’d read and write. I’d go hard for a couple days then sleep and go out for food, but mostly I’d read and write. If I did anything else it’d only be for my writing. WhatContinue reading “Drunk on Writing”

Lunch w/ Jayne

Tomorrow June 14 at 12:15est I was feeling a little under the weather today so I’ve been cruising social media and watching Star Wars today. A video came up and the woman in the video asked, “What would you do uninterrupted?” What would you be still working on if you never got interrupted? Whether itContinue reading “Lunch w/ Jayne”

On Writing a Daily Journal

I have been working on journaling everyday for years. At first I journaled all in the same place whether it was a novel journal or a daily thought, or research effort. Then I separated them all. And now I have a place where daily journaling is it’s own thing. This year I was really diggingContinue reading “On Writing a Daily Journal”

Support Other Writers

Writing Groups 101 This is one of the most important parts. I’m not going to lie, I have points in my life where I can read tons and tons of things from comic books to Journal articles. BUT with that comes struggling through even just a few pages in other points of my life. It’sContinue reading “Support Other Writers”

The Scary First Time

The first time I attended a writing group, my voice shook. I was nervous. I had no idea how to gauge myself as a writer. I also had been home for a while so I wasn’t as social at that time in my life. Let me tell you, I was scared. I was scared toContinue reading “The Scary First Time”

Writing Groups -Showing off

and how to do it! Writing groups are a place where the best practice is sharing: feedback, knowledge and experience and your work. What’s not suggested is treating someone’s manuscript as if your Simon Cowell on The X Factor. Unless the writer asked for every single mistake and missed quotation mark, keep feedback focused onContinue reading “Writing Groups -Showing off”

Choosing What Feedback

Writing groups provide the “Best way to learn to choose what feedback is important.” What do I mean by this? Well, let me start with a little writer’s community gossip. There’s a story going around that Hans Christian Andersen fell on his face and sobbed from getting critical feedback about his writing. (I’ve been there,Continue reading “Choosing What Feedback”