So I took the plunge and entered a $2000 prize poetry contest. I am waiting on my post to be reviewed. It cost me a buck to enter the contest. I missed that the first time around an even posted this as a free entry contest. By the time I realized it had cost me […]
I don’t always feel like writing, but when you do it for a living, you have to write sometimes, even when you don’t feel like it. I’m in a lot of pain every day, and that’s not conductive to good writing, or any writing for that matter, but I’ve found that sometimes writing takes my […]
Take a walk with me Down this street that is in my mind Past the houses, past the sidewalks Past the children’s playgrounds and ballparks Walk past all the things you see And wander into my memories The past, the present, the future All rolled into one event Inside myself, I control my destiny Beyond […]
THE ADVOCATE, complete at 82,400 words of shitty first draft, so begins the process of editing, editing, editing, rewriting, and editing. I read through the ending again last night and made a few minor rewriting changes. I felt satisfied with the ending even though it didn’t happen exactly like I had planned. Sometimes characters just […]
Don’t call me that. You have no right to call me by my name, much less to call me baby, sweetheart or darling. You have no right to speak to me so familiarly like nothing ever happened between us, like the words we spoke had never been uttered. Don’t look at me. You have no […]
Definitions of pride: a feeling of self-respect and personal worth satisfaction with your (or another’s) achievements the trait of being spurred on by a dislike of falling below your standards unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem The first two definitions are positive ones. I’m proud of my children. I’m proud of my accomplishments and my writing, something […]
While at the grocery store, in line in front of me was a very attractive woman, who looked as though she had been crying, and on the conveyor belt in front of her was a 1/2 gallon of ice cream, Soap Opera Digest and TV Guide. She reached over and picked up a pack of […]
isn’t it strange how some things that are complete opposites can often be so similar that, to the casual observer, they appear to be the same? For example, can you truly tell the difference between a sunset and a sunrise? Except for the time of day and the direction the sun is facing, there really […]
The first thing we must do when walking a new path is to determine what we should or shouldn’t take with us. For me, I heard a wise man say once that we should only keep those things in our life that are useful or beautiful. Everything that is not useful or beautiful, we should […]
Thoughts on Writing: Generating ideas for online article writing As a freelance writer, I often find paying writer’s jobs on the internet, and then I read the submission guidelines, check out what the site or publication has published in the past, and then research a bit and write a query or article and submit it on […]
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