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December 2, 2014
Writing Prompt! ���With pen in hand������
Anyone can be a writer. If you read the below (in purple) and anything at all comes to your mind – write it in the comments field below and see where it takes you! Creative writing can be so much fun and yet sometimes, the hardest thing to do – is start. This is why […]
Writing Prompt! “With pen in hand…”
Anyone can be a writer. If you read the below (in purple) and anything at all comes to your mind – write it in the comments field below and see where it takes you! Creative writing can be so much fun and yet sometimes, the hardest thing to do – is start. This is why […]
November 26, 2014
Writing Prompts! – A Game
One of the goals for my blog is to provide inspiration for writers to follow their dreams, and one of the biggest problems writers face is writers block! That is why I am starting something new here, Writing Prompts! – A Game Every once in a while, in order to light the fire for creative […]
November 24, 2014
Sitting at Jesus side
James & John wanted to sit at the right and left side of Jesus, I don’t think that went over well because, and I am assuming, they were hoping for higher positions in heaven than just angels. But for whatever reason, my limited Christian education always gave way for an image of my loved ones […]
November 13, 2014
Coming Toward – An Interpretive Video
There is a song by David Crowder called “Coming Toward” It is an instrumental piece that is repetitive but it keeps building the intensity until finally it resolves. It’s an amazing piece. Anyways, whenever I listen to it an amazing imagery comes to mind and I’ve been seeing it for months. While I would have […]
November 7, 2014
School Visit & Reading – Watch Videos!
Hello All, I know it’s been a week since my last post but that is because I’ve been editing and creating videos to share with you! I recently did a reading at: Blackshear Elementary Fine Arts Academy in Austin, TX and was privileged enough to have a videographer from the Texas Association of Authors record […]
October 31, 2014
If kids aren’t supposed to take candy from strangers… can someone please explain Halloween?
Don’t take candy from strangers! Do parents still tell that to children? Do parents still teach their children about the dangers of drugs laced in candy or razor blades in chocolate? I remember those talks vividly. I remember mom saying, don’t ever eat an unwrapped piece of candy. Always have her check the candy first. […]
October 29, 2014
Don’t do crossword puzzles in pen
BJW The other day a friend posted something on her timeline. She recalled a conversation she had once had with her father. She remembered the media making a big deal over a man who used a pen to complete crossword puzzles while her father always used pencil. She asked him about that and this is […]
October 28, 2014
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering. -Robert Frost I saw this phrase the other day and immediately said, how true! I get an idea for a poem, or a message I’d like for it to portray, but it writes itself through the rhyming words […]
October 21, 2014
What makes a successful author?
The other day I met another children’s book author whose publisher suggested she talk with other successful children’s book authors to get an idea of what to do. She told me this because she wanted to talk to me. I don’t know if she came to that decision after she saw my booth, or the […]
