Category: Picking up the Pen

Jul 09 2019

Picking up the Pen, Summer Reading Challenge

Summer Reading Challenge – July 9th Update

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We’re doing a reading challenge here at Teish Knits this summer, and it’s not too late to join in! You can download the challenge prompt list and bookmarks here. This...

Jun 18 2019

Book Reviews, Picking up the Pen, Summer Reading Challenge

Summer Reading Challenge – June 18th Update

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We’re doing a reading challenge here at Teish Knits this summer, and it’s not too late to join in! You can download the challenge prompt list and bookmarks here. This is a strictly...

Jun 16 2019

Family, Grace, Picking up the Pen, Story

The Hopes Unfulfilled

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Four years ago my heart broke on Father’s Day. Having a parent deliberately cut ties with you is crushing, but when it’s your dad making that choice on Father’s Day...

Jun 06 2019

Picking up the Pen

Between Remembered and Forgotten

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I’m taking part in the Penprints Flash Fiction Dash! My prompt was to write a cyberpunk flash fiction story based on the song Arrow by Half Alive. Tag Stanford splashed...

Oct 19 2018

Grace, Picking up the Pen, Ramblings

A Thread of Grace

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I want to chicken out. I’m berating myself for telling anyone that I was writing a memoir for NaNoWriMo this year because now I can’t chicken out. That’s why I...

Oct 05 2018

Book Reviews, Picking up the Pen

The Brave Art of Motherhood (And how this book helped me pick a NaNoWriMo project…)

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Because the FTC has nothing better to do than make life difficult for us bloggers, I’m required to disclose the following at the beginning of this post: I received a...

Mar 16 2017

Picking up the Pen

When Art Imitates Life

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Not infrequently, the hard stuff in life is what pushes me to write. Sometimes what I write ends up on my blog, in an article, or in one of my...

Feb 24 2017

Picking up the Pen

Musings on Stories

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There are jokes about the self-doubt that plagues writers. There’s more than a bit of truth to them though! I found myself in the middle of it once again last...

Dec 12 2016

Picking up the Pen

NaNoWriMo Recap

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So… I wrote a novel last month. It’s just a first draft, but it’s the first project longer than an article or short story that I’ve finished a first draft...

Oct 31 2016

Picking up the Pen

NaNoWriMo 2016: Let the Insanity Begin

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An author friend of mine once told me, “I bleed on the page.” I’ve got to admit that there’s something of me in everything I write, whether it’s fiction or...