Ok, so I'm already behind on the NaBloPoMo - who was I kidding thinking I might do the NaNoWriMo?! I still WANT to do both! But now isn't this just so telling of my personality?! Life to me is like going to Golden Coral - I tend to fill my plate with much more than
November, being the month of Thanksgiving and all, inspires many folks to record a list of things for which they are grateful. Also, November is the lead-in to Advent, when we celebrate the birth of Jesus, the ultimate gift for those of the Christian faith, which tends to also turn our hearts outward toward thinking
Having just cancelled my registration to my favorite writing workshop yesterday due to health challenges, I have decided to take on NaNoWriMo and, while I'm at it, NaBloPoMo,the blogging version of this November activity. I mean, with Thanksgiving and Christmas upcoming, my kitchen renovation coming to an end (meaning I am still quite disorganized and
My new writer friend, Dani, just started a blog - yea! Her words often speak my heart as well. Enjoy this amazing "new" writer! Love to you, Dani! Ginny :) Gratitude.
July 8, 2013 Prompt: 15 min “Shatter” Shatter Shatter. Shatter the glass ceiling, we women were offered, encouraged to do when we were mere girls living in a man’s world. The 1960’s, ’70’s, a time when, every now and then, a brave soul would rise up to shatter the glass ceiling previously owned, dominated by
Prompt: 40 minutes: “Older” June 17, 2013 Older Older is a loaded word, a plant growing out of its pot, roots bound together in a clump of experience seeking desperately fresh soil, nutrients, water -- that life-giving, liquid oxygen. Older is not for sissies. No, it takes a bit of bravery, or at least the
From my writer friend, Carol Henderson, with whom I share a mother's heart at all times. Thanks for sharing yours with us, Carol. 4, 3, 2, 1.
Prompt Writing: 15 minutes: "Eight Weeks" Eight Weeks In eight weeks, I will have breast surgery behind me. For good. I hope. Know, I believe. (Ha - I meant “No, I believe,” but how much better is “Know, I believe!”) For GOOD, I tell you! Knock cancer cells on their butt! Excise them out and
Prompt: 24 minutes: “Ageless” May 16, 2013 Ageless Ageless is how I feel at 53. Such an odd number -- not sexy, not old and wise, somewhere in between. Reaching back, just a bit, I am vibrant, sexy, the life of the party. Sparkly, beaming on the outside, in the prime of life supposedly. Yes,
Interesting to consider - for ourselves, our kids, our grandkids, perhaps even the characters we write about ... How different people learn.
