What is at your writing core? And by your writing core, I mean the main message or goal or theme in your writing. No matter what you write, this central piece shines through in your work. This one is easy for me. What exists at my writing core, like the sun in my writing soul's… Continue reading What Is At Your Writing Core?
Author: Vanessa Shields
Writer. Mother. Lover.
How good it feels to take a Facebook break
Can you remember your world without Facebook? Without Twitter or email or blogs? I can. In fact, I think about what that life was like all the time. I was thinking about it last night when I was watching the Golden Globes and one of the actresses was promoting the fact that she'd be posting… Continue reading How good it feels to take a Facebook break
Must I write?
My favourite quote EVER about the 'need' to be a writer: "Go into yourself. Search for the reason that bids you write; find out whether it is spreading out its roots in the deepest places of your heart, acknowledge to yourself whether you would have to die if it were denied you write. This above… Continue reading Must I write?
VANESSA SHIELDS 