"I can shake everything off as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn." -- Anne Frank
Tag: writing
Blog on Blogging
When I write, I aim to turn the ugly into something beautiful.
Wildflowers
New ideas are such shiny, pretty objects, aren’t they!
Grateful
Sometimes life gets in the way and the best you can do is plug along.
My Yes Marble
My marble looks like the universe, and to the universe I say yes!
Late Bloomer
I have always been a late bloomer. There’s that. DIARY WITH A GOLDEN KEY My first memories of writing and of wanting to be a writer go back to the year 1969 when I was seven years old. I had a pink and white diary with a tiny gold key. I remember sitting on the …
My Narrative is Mine
“A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.” —Virginia Woolf Don’t let someone else interpret your narrative. Recently, another writer told me (my apologies for not remembering who it was) that “writing is a way to get the narrative to be your narrative.” I don’t want anyone else to tell my …
Reading About Writing
On becoming a writer, the one best piece of advice is to read. Read everything. Read all the time. Read what you love and emulate author’s whose work you admire. Separate from that is reading about writing which also helps. It’s helped me anyway. I have shelves of books on writing. Here are a few …
My Writing Practice
Over the course of my life and especially the last nine months I have a established a practice of writing that works for me. It is multi-faceted, layered and requires some planning and organization on my part. Using multiple resources, I am able to grow my craft and learn new skills to make my talent …
Living With a Writer
Perhaps the person who should write an article with this title should be the person living with a writer rather than the writer. Since the writer is the one who writes, however, it gets to be written by the writer. If you, like my husband, live with a writer, here are some things you might …
Regina M. Allen 