Tag: 2019
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Day 7: #whyshewrites
Are you a plotter or a pantser? So… I had never heard the term ‘pantser’ before this prompt, 🤷🏽♀️ but a quick search clarified this for me. Along with the definition came the option of a ‘plantser’, which is a combination of the two and my answer. 👍🏽 Despite being a plotter in every other…
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Day 6: #whyshewrites
Share your writing genre I dare to say that if I have one, my genre is creative nonfiction. Most of my published works, whether creatively or professionally, would likely be considered nonfiction. Although a piece I’ve been working on for many years is fictional, it is loosely based on truth. However, all of my other…
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Day 5: #whyshewrites
Who is a woman writer who inspires you? My favorite authors are generally male. Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Patterson, Chaucer, Shakespeare, etc. are some of my favorites. However, along similar lines I have loved female writers like Bronte, Alcott, Austen, Tartt, Atwood, Morrison, Rand, and more. The female authors I prefer tend to be more contemporary or…
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Day 4: #whyshewrites
Today’s prompt: What’s your writing snack? Interesting question and not sure I have a writing food. However, a good cup of coffee is a must for my writing sessions. Something about the scent of coffee helps me focus my mind to write. Without it, I feel as if a writing session is incomplete. 😛 ~T…
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Day 3: #whyshewrites
Share a photo of your writing space My writing space is almost always in a café – a Starbucks’ one at that. Since most of my adult life has been spent away from my home country, I fell in love with the Starbucks’ experience early on when I felt homesick and craved the essence of…
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Day 2: #whyshewrites
While I’m in the flow…. Favorite motivational quote. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” ~Aristotle I do not know if this counts as a motivational quote, but it has been one of my favorite quotes since I was in college and fell in love with Aristotle’s…
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#WhySheWrites
It seems suitable to kick off May and also restart my concerted effort to write regularly again with a challenge by #whyshewrites – as first noticed by a fellow writer @kamsinkaneko from #theslowpath. I have been meaning to get myself back into the habit, but, well, excuses abound and one thing leads to another so…
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Aspiring Inspirations
I have always hated being asked Who inspires you and why? It’s always sounded like a cliché question and a kind of judgment since most people annoyingly say The Dalai Lama or Mother Theresa or some other icon of sycophants’. Sound cynical enough for you? 🤷🏽♀️ In my reality and view of the world, I…
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What Goes In
One of my goals this year is to read more. Though I do read a relatively good amount most years, it is usually done in a binge-style manner on holidays like a plant 🌱 soaking up water when it’s soil is dry. So, to avoid this pattern and to shift what gets inputted into my…
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Responsibility
A conversation with a friend has stayed with me when she once asked her father why he didn’t force her to learn Spanish even though it was her parents’ mother tongue. She shared her father’s response as: he was too busy trying to make a living and needing English to care for the family that…
