Saturday Smile is a weekly feature hosted over on Feeding on Folly that I like to participate in because I think everyone can benefit from having more smiles in their life! This week’s featured Saturday Smile photo is of my freshly bathed canine monsters, who make me smile on this Saturday afternoon! These 2 have spent almost […]
Assignment #6 for Writing 101 of Blogging University is to describe your writing space. Where do you write? Do you prefer blogging on your laptop in a coffee shop? Are you productive in a quiet room, door closed, away from civilization? Today, describe the space where you write. Or, if you don’t have a dedicated
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“Why is writing so much harder for me than it is for everybody else?” — every novelist ever, secretly to themselves, all the time — Lev Grossman (@leverus) April 28, 2015 Assignment #5 for Writing 101 of Blogging University is to “Let social media inspire you.” One of the goals of Writing 101 is to tap
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Assignment #4 for Writing 101 at Blogging University is to create a story from a single image. Images — including photographs and works of art — can also act as starting points for stories, essays, poems, and personal musings. For this exercise, use one of the images provided as the creative spark for today’s post. You
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Assignment #3 for Writing 101 at Blogging University is to select one word from the list below that speaks to you in some way. Have you always wanted to write about that wrong decision you made? Are you a long-term traveler looking for the right city to settle? Do you want to write a poem about your
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Getting a slow start on my assignments for Writing 101 of Blogging University due to being on vacation but better late than never! This post is in response to the first assignment. I write because… I can’t speak. Ok…well, technically, I can speak. I have no problem talking. It’s just that social situations are intimidating
Today’s post is in response to a weekly event at The Broken Spine called Wednesday’s Lyrics. The idea is to post song lyrics to a song that has inspired or moved you. As well as a brief reason why you chose your particular song. The song doesn’t necessarily have to be heard within the current week.
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This week’s Sunday Snippets of Inspiration is about a story I saw online this week, concerning this 6-year-old little boy, Jaden, who after losing both his parents (his father when he was four and just recently his mom), decided he wanted to make people smile. As family and friends grieved, he told his aunt, who is now
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Today’s post is inspired by a feature that I found over on MyRedPage. The challenge is about sharing your thoughts behind the quote of the week…it will be your choice the way you do it, it is your echo. Write a story…capture the words in a photo or come up with a new quote which shares
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As it is already late today and I was lacking in blogging inspiration, I went looking for some blogging events that might inspire today’s post. I happened to stumble across a blogging event for Monday over on Taste & See that I thought looked like it might be fun…or at the very least, might be needed!