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writing through it

Y’all wouldn’t believe it by looking at this blog, but I have written so much these last few months. My finger has hovered over the Publish button, waiting for some kind of permission to post, then re-thinking my action and saving my thoughts for another day. There is so much going on. 2020 is a…

You Matter

These two simple words strung together make a powerful statement that I can’t take credit for. They came to me from the most unexpected of places – from one of our recent writing retreaters – an older lady with a varied past that was slowly revealed to us through a series of stories and poems.…

what i’ve learned from calling myself a WRITER this year

This month, I’m clumsily attempting another go at NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month. The goal is 50,000 new words in November. But in just seven days, I’ve already become quite privy to the fact that it’s not easy to write over 1,600 words in a day – and it’s even more difficult to sit…

finding your flow + accepting the process

PHEW. You know, when I embarked on a series of Disney posts, I never imagined they could consume my entire September. But you know what? They did. And now that that’s all past, I’m getting back to the root of things in a post that was written over a month ago. It’s about the detouring…