by Jocosa Wade | Oct 31, 2019 | Inspiration, Writers life, Writing tools
In my early morning writing sessions words flow with urgent ease. Today was no different. Then Bam! I dropped my pen. I stopped writing because I caught myself veering into a tangent. Tangents happen. I’ve grown to love them. They often help me drop deeper into my...
by Jocosa Wade | Oct 24, 2019 | Creativity, Inspiration, whores of negativity, Writers life
Yaya, my Greek grandmother, was a gardener. The best gardener I’ve ever seen. She loved fresh cut flowers in her house. Her backyard was so overrun with flowering plants— even in the fall something was in bloom— only a tiny patch of grass was visible in the center,...
by Jocosa Wade | Oct 17, 2019 | Books, Inspiration, Writers life
Writing is momentum. When I allow my hand to run across the page— driven solely by what Natalie Goldberg calls Wild Mind— anything can happen. It’s why I show up. Why I’ve always shown up. The first to arrive and the last to leave because I couldn’t risk missing out....
by Jocosa Wade | Oct 17, 2019 | Writing Practice
Movement was key, and the key was around my neck; that’s what extra shoestrings were for— skate keys. After eight hours at a desk, where the only activity was my pencil gliding haphazardly across the page to form letters and numbers I didn’t care about, I needed to...
by Jocosa Wade | Oct 10, 2019 | Creativity, Inspiration, Writers life, Writing tools
My college spending money was earned by working as a counselor for a Girl Scout camp in Michigan. Summers at camp were the best way to burn off the drudge of the academic year: ghost stories around the campfire, cheeks exhausted from laughing at the shenanigans of...