by Jocosa Wade | Jan 13, 2021 | Creativity, Inspiration, Revision, Writers life, Writing tools
Anyone searching for a slice of inner peace this week? The struggle is real. More, or less difficult depending on the circumstances of your particular life. No thanks, I think I’ll skip the Kurt Vonnegut novels right now, I’m living them. And yet, I’m not. Jump back—...
by Jocosa Wade | Jan 6, 2021 | Inspiration, Revision, Writers life
2021 arrived. Today marks a full week of newness. But my little acreage of world doesn’t feel any different. Does yours? Covid-19 is still covid-ing up the death toll— especially in these United- cough- States— and all the baggage that goes along with it is alive and...
by Jocosa Wade | Dec 30, 2020 | Books, Inspiration, Revision, Snow Queen, Writers life, Writing tools
Life’s latrine dumped itself on us this year. The bad and the ugly gave good love a workout. But love never tires; it’s the heat of life; it rises; it removes obstacles and illuminates hope. And that’s all the philosophizing this gal can do on the last day of the year...
by Jocosa Wade | Dec 23, 2020 | Books, Inspiration, Writers life
Tis the season for menorahs and stars; and stockings and presents— did someone say books?— and ho-ho-ho, and cookies and fruitcake and snow, snow, snow. And the Grinch. The Grinch hated Christmas! The whole Christmas season! Now, please don’t ask why. No one quite...
by Jocosa Wade | Dec 17, 2020 | Creativity, Inspiration, Revision, Writers life
I don’t want to be here. But I don’t want to be on the page of the other document either— the one under the Big-Edit microscope. It was my intention to cut short my Saturday reading and finish the current chapter— the one that’s been plaguing me. It took a happy turn...