Want to help me get a new desk chair? Check out the details in the donation box below the post and read my stories on Vocal! A huge hug and a thank you to all of you who have already helped! This September there are nearly three dozen free writing contests for short fiction, novels, poetry, … Continue reading Reblog: 35 Writing Contests in September 2022 – No Entry Fees by Erica Verrillo
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The Benefits of Writing about Yourself
Want to help me get a new desk chair? Check out the details in the donation box below the post and read my stories on Vocal! Travel memoir word count: 17,317 I finished the first draft of my travel memoir! Yay! Now comes the hard part. When I set out to write a book detailing my … Continue reading The Benefits of Writing about Yourself
Finding Rest
Want to help me get a new desk chair? Check out the details in the donation box below the post and read my stories on Vocal! Anyone else have a hard time resting? I’m not talking about sleep, but just rest. Not doing anything. Letting yourself recharge. Reading a book. Playing a video game. Chatting … Continue reading Finding Rest
Silver Starling: A Superhero Flash Fiction Story
Want to help me get a new desk chair? Check out the details in the donation box below the post and read my stories on Vocal! I've never seen something so fearsome, so sharp, so loud. Every line is sharp and jagged without a hint of anything soft. I get the sense that it's ready … Continue reading Silver Starling: A Superhero Flash Fiction Story
Reblog: Surprising Ways Handwriting Can Boost Productivity by Make Your Biz Fizz
Listen on Spotify. With so much technology around us nowadays, it is difficult to imagine someone handwriting something, especially since many consider it an impractical, mostly useless skill in modern life. But perhaps we should not be so quick to dispense with the skill. Handwriting can help increase our productivity in several surprising ways, meaning […] … Continue reading Reblog: Surprising Ways Handwriting Can Boost Productivity by Make Your Biz Fizz
Little Writing Lessons Well Learned
Want to help me get a new desk chair? Check out the details in the donation box below the post! The past five days feel like they've lasted for a year. My kitchen flooded, I finally changed my last name to my husband's, and the next instalment of one of my all-time favourite series was … Continue reading Little Writing Lessons Well Learned
Find Success with Personal Projects
Want to help me get a new desk chair? Check out the details in the donation box below the post! Project Pea word count: 20,147 No Monday post and a late Tuesday post? It happens. Life happens. The past few days have been a little crazy, and since writing for the blog doesn't pay the … Continue reading Find Success with Personal Projects
Reblog: Bookmarked Adventures: Free SF/F Writing Con! by BookmarkedOne
Get ready, everyone, because Life, the Universe, and Everything is about to fall into your lap. Right, so page back in your memories to 2021. A lot of events still cancelled because of Ye Olde Plague, everyone getting a lot of reading done, and even some dedicated introverts starting to miss their fellow nerds, pressing […] … Continue reading Reblog: Bookmarked Adventures: Free SF/F Writing Con! by BookmarkedOne
3 Tabs I Always Have Open
Project Pea word count: 13,063 I hardly ever have more than one tab open. I'd call myself a fairly disorganised person most of the time, and yet when it comes to certain things like internet tabs, I can't stand keeping more than one thing open at a time. I just about explode every time my … Continue reading 3 Tabs I Always Have Open
The Pipe Predicament Chapter 4 – A Sci-Fi Mystery Story
“You know, don’t you?” Adan’s voice was behind her as she took the pilot’s seat in the cockpit. “Of course she knows,” Kr’zani said with barely controlled derision. Adan chuckled. “I do admire your faith, Kr’zani, but not even Shera knows everything.” Shera hummed noncommittally as she ran through the computer databanks to see on … Continue reading The Pipe Predicament Chapter 4 – A Sci-Fi Mystery Story
The Story Canvas 