If we wish to be resourceful and creative in life, we must seek out encouragement and advice that nourishes and replenishes us. Especially in times of creative abandon. With NaNoWriMo around the corner, advice is flying from every side, blowing like wind from a canyon. It is difficult to know which way to turn – … More NaNoWriMo Prep: Advice and Finding Your Natural Mind
We are only fourteen days away from National Novel Writing Month, and the internet is becoming abuzz with the yearly questions: Will I or Won’t I? I don’t Know What to Write! I Never Get Past 30 Thousand Words! So much worry. And as an old martial arts teacher once liked to say: Worry is … More Dealing With Pre-NaNoWriMo Anxiety: 5 things to do instead of freaking out
October is NaNoWriMo Eve. Next month, those who choose to participate in National Novel Writing Month will partake in a tremendous act of writing: 50,000 words – a novel – in a month. But NaNo is about more than just words; no matter if we write 5 words or 100,000, it’s an act of self-confidence, of shattering … More NaNoWriMo Eve: On Bravery and Beginning
I remember the first time one of my characters came out of the closet. I was 17, working hard on one of my first non-academic works of fiction, what was supposed to be a coming-of-age love story between two college students. I had been working for months, but it seemed like no matter what I … More National Coming Out Day Special: When Your Character Comes Out of the Closet
My name is Michelle, and I am a hoarder. Not of stuff, not so much anyway (though I do own a prodigious amount of brickabrack from my life which holds value only to myself, and probably is only clutter to anyone looking from the outside-in) but an idea hoarder. I hoard ideas. It’s a terrible … More Writing Mistakes: Hoarding Ideas
“Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader, not the fact that it’s raining, but the feeling of being rained upon.” ~ E. L. Doctorow Share and enjoy!
Sometimes shit happens. Generally, it happens right after a commitment, or a recommitment. Shit likes to hide off to the side, waiting until the right time to strike and derail us. Sometimes, very often, the derailment works. The trick isn’t to power through it, or to stick it out, or to beat ourselves up for … More Sometimes Shit Happens
I love quotes, and so I think from now on I will have a new quote available every Friday. Please share, enjoy, print it up and… well… whatever you do after that is your business, but it’s cool. You can do that. Weirdo. “And the idea of just wandering into a cafe with a notebook … More Friday Quote Love
I’m playing a bit of catch up right now, going back through abandoned tabs with abandoned posts. Some of them I keep, and some of them – like this one – I tear up with the delete button and try again. What once was brilliant now is just a jumble of words. Ah, writing. I … More September Blogging Challenge
On the 8th of August, 2015, I said goodbye to my 13 year career as a barista. I left my job to be a writer. I wasn’t ready. I had no real plan; but I quit my job anyway. I always thought i would eventually — that was the appeal of working in coffee; the … More I Quit My Job to Be A Writer
Concerning History in the Atlantic World, 1680-1740
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one woman's thoughts about life on the spectrum
Japanese pop culture through a feminist lens
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