Happy Easter!

This Easter my husband and I entered into the land of cheese curds and Spotted Cow beer. Yes, we’re in Wisconsin. Sometimes, you’re so used to city life that you forget there’s more to your surroundings than rush hour, emergency sirens, and buildings. Stepping out of our car last night the first sound to hitContinue reading “Happy Easter!”

April Fools Day

The first day of our new month is a holiday for all the pranksters and jokers in our lives. Every year we all wait to see what kind of pranks are going to be played on our friends and families. The lack of not being able to fill our co-workers cube with balloons or toiletContinue reading “April Fools Day”

Hoarding Slush Piles

Over the weekend, I TikToked about Spring cleaning and taking a few items to Goodwill on a rainy Saturday afternoon. Last night, I watched an episode of Hoarders and it scared me. I immediately went and cleaned another small area in our creative room after watching a painful episode of someone who needed help butContinue reading “Hoarding Slush Piles”

Book Time!

Tuesday is a trip to the library! It’s time to build our home shelves with more recommended reads from other book lovers. I know there are lists floating around on all kinds of social media but I’m going share is from A Clockwork Reader on YouTube. I choose this reading list because a wide varietyContinue reading “Book Time!”

Find the Right Words

“For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.” -Catherine Drinker Brown Let the brain sparks fly this weekend and may you have multiple moments of brilliance. I had to share this quote to inspire the moment when all the words you type finally connectContinue reading “Find the Right Words”

Publishing Announcement

We’re coming to the end of the month and I can’t keep one of my projects quiet. Over the past year, my journey started by creating prompts because I stopped writing. I published 5 novels in the past and then my unfinished novels sat in the corner but life happened. I started making excuses andContinue reading “Publishing Announcement”

Writing Update

Changing plans over the weekend means that it’s time to get back to the most important part of being an author, and that’s sitting my butt down and writing this week. My goal this week is to add to my page count for one of my fantasy novels. In previous weeks, I took a deeperContinue reading “Writing Update”

ReDesigning

I had a plan this weekend to work on my next project of creating a writing journal for writers to share prompts and exercises that I’ve shared over the past year, then my husband decided to he wanted his own space for his YouTube Channel. The room he wanted to change is the last roomContinue reading “ReDesigning”

Location Writing

Movie producers and actors take their stories onset and on location.  It’s time for our fantasy filled worlds to take shape by going on location this week at an Irish Castle.  Your writing prompt can take place in any kind of castle, even ruins of a castle but the story must take place in Ireland. Continue reading “Location Writing”

Female Writers

This week is supposed to be full of green and four leaf clovers but the storm that dropped feet of snow in Colorado paid us a visit a day later in Minnesota. Temperatures dropped again and the snow fell late into the night. How am I supposed to find my pot of gold with snowContinue reading “Female Writers”

Becoming a Food Writer

Weekends are great for unwinding, exploring, and doing my favorite thing – following other foodies from around the world.  This past year changed locations but it didn’t change my love for cooking shows and baking challenges.  In my opinion, any writer who can make us drool with words and no pictures is a master ofContinue reading “Becoming a Food Writer”

Character Development

Happy Friday!  I hope you were a good student and did your homework yesterday.  I spent hours working on my character profiles and flushing out their back stories.  More importantly, I spent time on asking why questions.  This exercise was inspired by Shaelin at Reedsy or  https://youtu.be/PqKxLx3As28.  If you didn’t have time, or become aContinue reading “Character Development”