Writing

This is an archive of entries in the category Writing: Words are like gems. Some take them into loving hands and craft them into things of beauty. Others mangle the living daylights out of them. I not only love to write; I love to write about the way people use this great language of ours.

Logjam

God, I hate when this happens. In this still slightly foreign Western life that I lead, I go about my daily business as if pre-programmed: Get up, get breakfast, start dinner (our hours dictate that if we started dinner when…

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Bon Mot Du Jour

From that part of your brain that tells you that you should “learn something new every day”, comes my thought that I should post a “word of the day” every day. I’ve thought about it, and not written it down,…

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Wrapped Up And Wrung Out

This post has been deleted. Apparently it caused a bit of a rift in my family, and for that I apologize….

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Inspiration

One of the most important things that anyone who mentors a writer will tell you is that if you want to write, you have to read. Like any creative person, a writer’s soul needs constant feeding; a steady flow of…

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The Scariest Dry Spell Of Them All

It’s been a rough couple of weeks. I’ve been bereft of words. Me. The woman who calls herself a writer. Stuck. I’ve sat down at the computer on a number of occasions to create, only to walk away in frustration….

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