Back for another Thursday!
Hello, Write Edge readers! I’m still feeling my way around this new schedule, but I think I’m slowly finding a rhythm for it. It’s starting to free both my creativity and my time for other writing as well as what I want to accomplish here. I’d prefer to be able to post the week’s content first thing in the morning as I’ve done before, but I think I’ll get there. Here’s hoping. :>
In the meantime, on to this week.
I’ve taken a small diversion from my normal writing to try my hand at free verse poetry. (Maybe I was influenced by dynamite editor Rachel Thompson, a lover of lyric fiction and a writer of poetry.) I thought about some news I received recently of a friend who will be moving this summer, and I decided to take the situation and spin it out in something creative. Check out this small portion:
You finished your lunch and gave me a hug,
Telling me you loved me, that we should meet again.
I nodded and agreed, pushing away the hurt.
Read the whole free verse poem on The Write Edge Writing Workshop!
This week I share my thoughts on a new YA book. Here’s the opening to my post on This Is Not A Love Letter by Kim Purcell:
When a teen goes missing, his girlfriend refuses to believe he’s run away. Instead she focuses on the positive and begins documenting the search for him, hoping to share it with him when he returns. Author Kim Purcell recounts this tale for teens by using the unusual choice of second person point of view that ultimately weakens her novel This Is Not A Love Letter.
Read the whole review now on The Write Edge Bookshelf!
I’ve also put my latest parenting adventures for you. Find out what happened when my child came to me with a cogent, thoughtful argument on something she wanted and what happened next. Read this quick snippet:
“Mamma,” Nine said to me last week, “I need to talk to you about something.”
I stood at the stove making dinner, so I nodded at her. “Okay, go ahead.”
“No, not right now,” she said, “later, when you come to say good night.”
“Why can’t you talk right now?”
“Because it’s a secret. I don’t want anyone to hear, especially Di-Di or Daddy.”
Find out what happened next on Growth Chart!
Thank you, as always, for your support and continued kindness, readers. You motivate me to keep going. Have a wonderful week!
