I just woke up from a series of dreams where I was deeply afraid of something unknown. In one, I feared my own lack of memory; I spent the dream hunting for a name I’d forgotten. It was the name of my third child, a middle child, a boy. Only when I woke up did […]
Writing
The Reason I Blog
It’s been almost two months since my last blog post. In that time it’s been hard to find my purpose for posting. Over my eight years of blogging, I’ve focused on two main reasons for writing on this page, and both reasons have been failing me lately. Reason One: I blog because I have something […]
Summer Reflections
My writing life has been going beautifully this summer– except for this blog! I tend to write blog posts as mini-reflections on what’s going on in my life, and they tend to come spontaneously. But I’ve come to realize that approach only works well during the school year. In the summer, my reflections don’t come […]
Micro-Blogging
Last Thursday, I put up a short post about trying on my wedding dress. It was a post I felt inspired to write spontaneously, and took just over twenty minutes from start to finish. It wasn’t planned. It wasn’t scheduled. It wasn’t even a full-length post; it was micro-blogging. Yet it got a great reaction […]
Write Every Day
This week, I feel like the Little Engine That Could, when he’s right on the precipice and needs one more push to get himself over the mountain. My goal was to finish my novel draft by November 30. It’s currently at 104,000 words– which is almost 15,000 words than I’d planned for– but I’m still […]
What I’ve Learned From Blogging Every Day
Today is the last day of my two-week blogging series. I’m really happy with the results! I set out to write a post every weekday for two weeks, and ended up with 11 posts in 14 days (I wrote an extra on a Saturday). I haven’t blogged this much in years and years, and it […]