Happy Valentine’s Day, loves! I wrote this flash fiction in 2013 (originally titled “One Foggy Morning” and wanted to share it this weekend because you just never know when – or how – that special someone will enter your life. Here’s to loving ourselves, not settling for mediocre love, and above all to loving kindness. xoxo…
Tag: writing
Guiding Creative Talent…the good, bad and ugly
Recently on Writer’s Unboxed, my go-to nearly daily writerly diversion, an author posted about a vintage academic book on raising and educating creative children called Guiding Creative Talent by E. Paul Torrance. Since it was nearly out of print, I had to have it. It’s the goofiest cover, but it was 1964 so we’ll forgive….
How to not lose your mind in transitions
I can’t write a lick this week. Okay, I’m writing *this* but as for fiction, I’m toast. My energy is wonky and for good reason. My household is in transition. My husband started a great new job this week, my boys returned from 5 days in California (missed ’em!), I’ve been to three schools for…
Six reasons to fully experience the experience. #creativity #mojo
What does “experience” have to do with increasing creativity and mojo? I don’t mean experience in the past-tense as a cumulative effort, but the present moment. Right now, fully feeling whatever experience you’re going through and being fully present when you’re experiencing that moment. Your mind isn’t back in your work day or fast-forwarded to…
Summer and Taking Turns
The end of the school year is mocking me. I can hear summer coming, whistling and skipping closer to me while I shrink back into the shadows, covering my ears and pretending the days of “I’m bored” and endless interruption aren’t at hand. As a mom, summer is a blessing. No more early morning ritual!…
Next Big Thing Blog Hop: Twin Falls, Paranormal YA
Special thanks to author Brenda Janowitz, RECIPE FOR A HAPPY LIFE (St. Martin’s Press July 2013) for inviting me on a new round of the Next Big Thing Blog Hop. This time I’m promoting a book by my younger alter ego, Lena Brown, (younger because I feel like a teenager when I write teen books!) I’d also like…
Hope Floats Storygrams
In doing the True-Do Track over on my Facebook page, which began in January with a month of journaling prompts, I’ve realized a few things already, including that I’m going to have MORE FUN with books and work this year. I felt like 2012 was all to-do list which is partly what inspired my True Do…
Next Big Thing Part 2: Hope Floats
I’ve been tagged by screenwriter and mystery novelist Jamie Livingston (aka Jamie Lee Scott) on the Next Big Thing blog tour. Even better, she’s coming to OKC tomorrow to screen her first short film based on her screenplay, “No One Knows,” and I get to see her! The last time I saw her was in…
Keep Calm and Write On or Drama Begets Drama?
Is it possible to be at your best creatively when your life is at its worst? So much has happened lately that disrupts life as we know it. Hurricane Sandy on the east coast, with many writer friends without power, which meant not only no wi-fi or computer to write on, but you could be…
The Dark Side of Being a Writer
I’m not sure one “chooses to be a writer.” It seems more often that writing chooses the writer. Would a child who later becomes a vet tell people, “I can’t help myself! I couldn’t stop fixing all the wounded animals.” They may have been fond of animals. But were they obsessed with it? Would the…
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