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,...
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...
by Jocosa Wade | Jun 24, 2020 | Inspiration, Revision, Snow Queen, Writers life, Writing tools
One of the most riveting scenes in film isn’t from Hitchcock and has nothing to do with mysterious identities à la Jason Bourne. The scene is from a movie based on a memoir about chess— Searching for Bobby Fischer by Fred Waitzkin. Don’t Move Until You See It. Those...
by Jocosa Wade | Jun 17, 2020 | Creativity, Inspiration, Revision, Snow Queen, whores of negativity, Writers life, Writing tools
I’m writing. Two words on the page followed by eight. No telling how much farther I’m going to get because this week has lacked productivity. Monday was great. I finished the last of the singing-arc chapters of Kaitlyn’s story. The emotional momentum and counterpoint...
