April 1st, 2015 I found my voice in the bedrooms of the many homes I lived in as a child. Stuffed in the back of a closet feverishly writing in a journal or reading a novel whose characters taught me how to survive and laugh and believe – I found my voice in the hiding… Continue reading What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Poetry?
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2014 Carry-Overs
*This post is Rated SV - for swearing and vulnerability* I've been writing this post in my head for weeks now. Finally sitting down and whipping out my balls so I can write it - type it - out of me. 2014 was a year I can't label as any one word. But some words… Continue reading 2014 Carry-Overs
NaNoWriMo Day 23 – 30 – A Parent’s Journey
Day 23 (Sunday) Word Count: 18, 586 Day 24 (Monday) Word Count: 19,286 (up 700) Day 25 (Tuesday) Word Count: The same Day 26 (Wednesday) Word Count: 22,469 (up 3183 ) Day 27 (Thursday) Word Count: The same Day 28 (Friday) Word Count: The same Day 29 (Saturday) Word Count: The same Day 30 (Sunday)… Continue reading NaNoWriMo Day 23 – 30 – A Parent’s Journey
NaNoWriMo Day 13 – A Parent’s Journey
TOTAL WORD COUNT: 12, 532 (I wrote 1192 words) HOW LONG I WROTE FOR: Just over an hour. WHAT ELSE I DID: As I look back over the last (almost) two weeks I see that my mornings are typically the same - I'm a MOTHER. Then my days from 9am - 2:00pm are typically the… Continue reading NaNoWriMo Day 13 – A Parent’s Journey
VANESSA SHIELDS 