by Jocosa Wade | Mar 31, 2021 | Inspiration, Snow Queen, Writers life, Writing tools
Writers have a built-in hunger for advice. Born of insecurity, I think. Or maybe I say that because my insecurities have been throwing a party ever since the final feedback came in on my manuscript. Still, I stand by it. Writing is hard. Much harder than anyone can...
by Jocosa Wade | Mar 24, 2021 | Inspiration, Snow Queen, Writers life
I was reading Clementine and the Family Meeting by Sara Pennypacker. Eight-year-old Clementine and her dad were building a new dining table because her mom was having a baby, which was going to throw the entire seating arrangement of their family of four out of whack,...
by Jocosa Wade | Jan 28, 2021 | Creativity, Inspiration, Snow Queen, Writers life
For much of my life, I prayed to be someone else. Several of my career paths sprouted because of the magnetism and expertise of musicians, dancers, actors, teachers— writers. I was oblivious to this pattern of behavior until Kundalini Yoga whispered to me, “I’ve been...
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 | Sep 15, 2020 | Creativity, Inspiration, Revision, Snow Queen, Writers life, Writing tools
The Hours opens with Virginia Woolf’s most famous line. Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. Woolf, played by Nicole Kidman, scratches out those words via fountain pen and the story of Mrs. Dalloway appears to flow without effort from there. Of...
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,...
