So this happened: Working title 'Beks Lauer'. It will change. !!! If you’re wondering where I’ve been. (Ha!) I’ve been writing. And writing and writing and writing. This time last year, I was also writing and writing and writing for National Novel Writing Month. I wrote the first draft of the novel I’m referring to… Continue reading I Wrote A New Novel
Category: On Writing
You Know You’re a Reader When
You have books around your house. Like, in every room. One tossed on a coffee table. A few in a stack on the dining room table that you have to move each time you set the table for a meal. There's the stack(s) by your bed, the stacks on the floor that you need to… Continue reading You Know You’re a Reader When
Four Years, Solstice, Teeth, Tomorrow
Beautiful Maria Bison Today is four years since my beautiful Nonna passed away. I awoke feeling her spirit near. My mom sent me a text with the above photo included in it. This is one of our favourite photos of my Nonna. Can you see her gentleness, her curiosity, her love, her love, her love?!… Continue reading Four Years, Solstice, Teeth, Tomorrow
The Swoop, The Flayer, The Light
And just like that, It swoops in. This...Otherness....This Disconnector. I was having a great day. Spent much of the morning in head-back hysterics, writing with ease, crossing things off the To-Do list like a master. Then...around 1pm...Its entry - chest-hit...oozes into me like the Mind Flayer (Shadow Monster) in Stranger Things (I'm rewatching the show...in… Continue reading The Swoop, The Flayer, The Light
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