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Mommy Post
Originally posted on Under The Ra: I am down in the dumps. I am not at ease. I am trying to manage my feelings and concerns about my toddler’s latest appointment with the developmental pediatrician. I tried to give myself a pep talk, listen to gospel music and take a walk, but nope. Still blue.…
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Daily Prompt – Polish
Today’s prompt from the Daily Word is Polish The word makes me think of things that are refined, cleaned up. The perfect poem, the perfect essay, song, book. They were all polished by the author and/or editor before reaching the masses. Ironically, today is also the birthday of Prince, Gwendolyn Brooks and Nikki Giovanni. It can’t…
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Reflections – Research
I was never one to outline. Whenever I attempted to write a novel, I just started writing. Most times, I do a character biography but I never sit down and outline the story. I have a fantasy that the words, the story, the twists and the turns will just come to me as I type.…
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Mother Goose
Then I came home to find that another young life was taken in my hometown in Michigan and that a young, honor-roll student was shot and killed in Texas today and I thought about the mothers of those two.
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Be Writing
I’ve been calling myself an aspiring writer for a little while now. I’m in graduate school for a writing program. I’ve joined writing groups. I’ve started and stopped writing several projects. I’ve participated in nanowrimo. I recently came across a post that said “Don’t be a writer; be writing.” It made me think that I…