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Happy Father’s Day!!

I hope all the fathers out there enjoyed their day the best that they could. Well, whether you celebrate today or not, I’m going to leave a quote here from a man Einstein called the Father of Modern Science, Galileo Galilei. I love the stars too much to be afraid of the night. https://www.careelite.de/en/galileo-galilei-quotes-sayings/ NextContinue reading “Happy Father’s Day!!”

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”

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”

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”

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”

Over the Next Week

We’ll dig in a little more. I’m going to go over the conversation starters over the next week. I think we can keep working on this subject and keep developing some really great ideas for writers. It’s important to have solitude while you write and think and create, but it’s equally important to include othersContinue reading “Over the Next Week”

Get Perspective

I’ve been talking about writing groups for a couple days now so I thought tonight would be a good night to share another writers input on writing groups. Author Joani Elliott says something I love. She says,”Writing can be a lonely endeavor and a good writing group can help provide needed strength, feedback and perspectiveContinue reading “Get Perspective”

Writing Groups

In honor of our Wednesday Lunch Date There are a lot of different kinds of writing groups. Some groups are meant to workshop your manuscripts, some are meant to share poetry, some are informative sessions with author talks, and then there are the amazing story slams. Those seem pretty fun. Today, we even have onlineContinue reading “Writing Groups”