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 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...
by Jocosa Wade | Dec 9, 2020 | Inspiration, Memoir, Revision, Writers life
And Happy Birthday, JoAn! None of you know my sister-in-law, but go ahead and give a shout out— a big Happy Birthday, JoAn! It’ll make you feel good, and those good vibrations will echo in her heart. I’m not the most consistent correspondent, but I always remember...
by Jocosa Wade | Nov 19, 2020 | Inspiration, Revision, Writers life
My oldest son used to love to say, “Back in the day.” I hated it because he started to use it in his late twenties to refer not only to his childhood but to mine; his inflection made it sound like this, “You know, back in the day like in the Middle Ages,...
