New Blogging Schedule

I realize that I haven’t blogged as much as I used to.  I apologize.  Starting tomorrow, I will be following the writing schedule I have made.
You can see it on the newly added page “Blogging Schedule.”  What do you think of it?
Tomorrow’s post will be called Flashback Friday. Please check it out.

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Playtime Outside my Window

I was sitting at my kitchen table, trying to coax words out of my mind, when I looked up and saw, through the large windows in front of me, two squirrels running across the hill in my backyard.  At first, it took a second for my eyes to focus on them.  Against the red mud [...]

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Tuesday To-Do List

I’ve been fairly productive the last couple of days.  I paid bills (most of them), inquired about employment opportunities on campus (not successful), confirmed my volunteer duties for the next couple of weeks (exciting), jump-started my social life, and cleaned.
Oh! And I made a Twitter account! Well, technically, I made it during Spring semester for [...]

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Reflection: Writing Over the Years

In fifth grade, my language arts teacher assigned the class the inevitable essay “Where Will You Be Ten Years from Now?” Interestingly enough, at eleven years old, I imagined myself a student of architecture. I saw a mature young lady attending a college in Rhode Island, the bricks white-washed and the main black gates [...]

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Shall I Make Time to Write? thoughts from two shoulders

I have heard it; I have read it. The message appears again and again: You can make time to write.

Is there truth in those words?

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To Pay for Chuckle and Cliche

I bought the September 2008 issue of The Writer today.
I didn’t plan to. I just wanted to walk in with fourteen dollars in hand, buy an eight dollar book I needed for a class, and walk out. Simple and quick. Browsing was the last thing on my mind because browsing usually leads to unexpected purchases [...]

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Why I Write: Last Year’s Brainstorm

Having a subject, or no subject at all, and letting your pen speed through the page, trying to catch as many thoughts as it can with as few pauses as possible—do you free-write? I do. Last year in English class, the teacher sometimes allowed the first fifteen minutes to write freely in a journal or [...]

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What the Ill Mind Writes

My father and sister has been ill for the past week, and it seems my immune system is no match against them. The coughs, the sneezes, the headaches, and groans—I have finally fallen to the bug’s advances.
Now my head aches. A rock pounds the inside in slow, echoing rhythms. Swallowing causes an ocean wave to [...]

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3 Writing Excercises

Last summer, 2007, I went to a youth writing workshop for four days and three nights. I loved it there. 
I had fun being with other young writers and learning from the seminars; and because we stayed on a campus by the beach, the morning ocean air refreshed our minds. I even enjoyed most of the exercises.  [...]

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My (Writing) Space

When it comes to writing, I’m a perfectionist: a line written down would have to go through at least five revisions in my head then another five once on paper or screen; more ink scratches than legible words cover a sheet of paper and the backspace button looks to be most worn. Yes. Perfection is [...]

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