Freelance Writer & Author
Is your planner pretty or is your planner functional? Here’s how to tell: If you buy stickers and highlighters, colored pens and washi tape, and planner inserts, and planner covers, but you haven’t completed one big goal this month, your planner is not functional. If you spend more time decorating and setting up your planner…
A new notebook. That’s what it took for me to take a piece from a daily writing session to a published piece. The Notebook Most writers (no official data study, just the majority of writers I have come across in the past ten years) have a pen and/or paper addiction. We love beautiful journals with…
What we bought for our new puppy When we were days away from bringing home our new puppy we went shopping. It was like shopping for a new baby. We ogled all the toys and treats and accessories. Basically, we checked out all the promises of easy pet maintenance, perfect home transition essentials, and must-have…
The Details I posted once about my new Australian Cattle Dog puppy, Pandora. Today she is 15 weeks old (3.5 months, plus a week). This little girl has stolen my heart and destroyed my socks. As I attempt to train her I’ve realized a few things. The most obvious one being, I never trained a…
Kick-Ass Cheerleader vs. Writer’s Block This post is one of the painful ones. The harsh reality that calls us out on our behavior. That doesn’t listen to our excuses. However, it’s the post that we all need to hear. It’s the tough love we need, that our friends and family either won’t give us because…
April 2020 As always, this list does not include everything. For starters, I’m human and I don’t always remember to record the links of all the sites I visit, all the one paragraphs or sinlge pages I read, nor do I remember everything I learn. Sad, but true. This month has been slow in the…
Writers and Dry Hands As writers we experience weird things with our hands; crazy cold fingers during the winter, stiff joints or cramped fingers after long writing sessions, and now painfully dry hands during the quarantine. Most of us have washed out hands well prior to this rotten virus, but now we are washing them…
We’re going way back on the basics for this post. Are you thriving during these whole quarantine months? Or are you stumbling along, trying to get a good foothold amidst all of the changes? It may be time to re-tool your expectations. Expectation vs. Reality Some writers are thriving and using this time at home…
It’s a new month and each new month starts off with a harsh, but encouraging post, from Kick-Ass Cheerleader. This April she wants to remind you that YOUR WORDS, YOUR WAY, MATTER! YOUR WORDS, YOUR WAY, MATTER This will be repeated over and over again, throughout this post. Did you just scoff? You’ve heard it…
Picking up our new puppy Adding a new puppy to our household wasn’t the most planned event. My husband likes dogs, but he was done with them when we got a wild child early in our life as husband and wife. If you’ve ever watched Funny Farm with Chevy Chase, we got dog one. Our…