by Jocosa Wade | Feb 17, 2021 | Inspiration, Revision, Writers life, Writing tools
Jump back— to 1991 and the film Fried Green Tomatoes based on Fannie Flagg’s novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café, starring Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy. Bate’s character, Evelyn, is an unhappy, restless forty-something housewife who is “too old to be...
by Jocosa Wade | Feb 10, 2021 | Creativity, Inspiration, Revision, Writers life
Breaking News— Round two of the Big Edit Revision is complete. Yay! I love how the manuscript has changed from what I thought was nothing more than a simple story of a woman owning her independence to a full-bodied journey of a woman on a rocky road to forgiveness....
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...