My Heart Goes Out to Ukraine

Today has been a weird day at our house. Not a bad day at all. It was peaceful and felt kinda orderly in our home. My heart goes out to the families sleeping in subways. I wish they could just be swept safely out of harms way. We are preparing for snow. And I’m justContinue reading “My Heart Goes Out to Ukraine”

Novel Writing Discussion

I’m not sure why colored pens make me so delighted but they do. So I’m going through the second part of my book and adding in little details. Sometimes I wonder if adding those details right now is a waste of time but I ignore that voice knowing if I’m gunna have to scrap aContinue reading “Novel Writing Discussion”

Writing What You Can for When You Can

The best way to prepare for a spark of inspiration, is consistency. There’s a quote from Pablo Picasso that says, “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” Preparation for the spark of creativity, is one of the best ways to ensure that your art will come into being. I think rest is important.Continue reading “Writing What You Can for When You Can”

Walls

I’d love for everything to work out in my favor. The hard part is the challenges that come before the reward. The challenge isn’t always the tilling or busy work. It’s not always connecting and creating the best log line. The challenge that comes before the reward is often the same wall I keep runningContinue reading “Walls”

Poetry from Paintings

I’m at a part in my novel where my main character, Christian, walks into a room created by her mother that’s identical to a painting Christian’s currently working on. We see Christian’s connection to the painting earlier on the story, but I don’t explain too much about the painting. So right now I’m exploring differentContinue reading “Poetry from Paintings”

Be Proud of Yourself

I was brought up in the Christian community. A big thing that we were taught growing up was to be humble. I think humility is great but it’s taught in a way that made me feel like being proud of myself was a sin. So today I was working through my internal blocks. One ofContinue reading “Be Proud of Yourself”

Time Flies

Today went by so quick, I can’t believe I got anything done. I was wiped out by the time I got home and got all the groceries organized. Side note: You know what I appreciate, paper bags. I’m huge into recycling and getting it all out to the curb in a mostly neat fashion. IContinue reading “Time Flies”

Genesis 1

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.Genesis 1:1-2 When God started he created the heavens and the earth. That’s just two things. It says here, one out of the two things, the earth, was formless andContinue reading “Genesis 1”

Imagination Play

As a kid, I loved imagination play when no one was looking. My favorite part of my room was where we set up house corner. I didn’t always have that room, but when I did, that was my favorite part. All the fake kitchen stuff was set up in a way that separated house cornerContinue reading “Imagination Play”