by Jocosa Wade | Jul 30, 2020 | Creativity, Inspiration, Snow Queen, Writers life
Around the time I was toying with the idea of a writing life, the Rune Stones— twenty-five to be exact— came into my life. Whenever unable to make a decision, I’d haul out the Stones. Now, I’m fully aware of how easy it is to interpret the reading of a selected Stone,...
by Jocosa Wade | Jul 22, 2020 | Inspiration, Revision, Writers life, Writing tools
Ever since my plunge into this precarious life of a writer, I’ve been bombarded with the Dos and Don’ts of backstory. I have nothing against dos and don’ts— my life is riddled with personal ones that keep me moving forward instead of hanging around waiting for the...
by Jocosa Wade | Jul 16, 2020 | Inspiration, Revision, Writers life
Writing a publishable novel may be the last thing I do before I die. Not because I have some terminal illness and the clock is ticking, going, going, going, gone! Although, I could be hit by a garbage truck on my morning walk with Abigail, as we dodge to the opposite...
by Jocosa Wade | Jul 8, 2020 | Creativity, Inspiration, Revision, Writers life
Jump back to college, senior year. For fun, I signed up for Intro to Economics, believing it was a topic I needed to have a grasp on before venturing out into the real world. My professor had previously gone to seminary to become a priest, perhaps because he believed...
by Jocosa Wade | Jul 1, 2020 | Creativity, Inspiration, Snow Queen, Writers life
My handwriting loops like a cowgirl’s lasso whenever I’ve fallen deep into a story. It starts small and expands until the letters are no longer contained within the lines on the page. Grammar and writing rules are also lost— they vanish first, which is no surprise...