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
Tag: Novel
NANOOOOH!
Ooooh. My brain hurts! It's been a minute since I've given an update on my Nano writing but that's because I've been WRITING AND WRITING AND WRITING. Today's word count: 45, 159!! I wrote 3555 words today and my brain is mush-eyyyy! I had another emotional write...crying all over myself as I unfolded a character's… Continue reading NANOOOOH!
Oops, I did it again
https://media.giphy.com/media/loFkgbqCLQjSQFC4ja/giphy.gif The iconic Britney Spears. I wish that my 'oops, I think I did it again'-ing was anything like Spears' love song. I wish I had the balls to wear that hot red red one-piece suit! No, my oops-ing, as I'm learning, has to do with well...a coping mechanism I taught myself when I was… Continue reading Oops, I did it again
Poem 264 – The THIS of it
The THIS of It - for Nic the vastnesses of exchangethat ventilate – the sliced open hole in the bleeding trachea of life the THIS beyond the language that gives it life in the deep deepnesses of nowthat suture this love on your everything. THIS. your story shared [THIS] your naked ode [THIS] here in… Continue reading Poem 264 – The THIS of it
VANESSA SHIELDS 
