Raise your hand if: you’ve ever left a measuring cup in the bag of flour or sugar. you’ve intentionally left a measuring cup in the bag of flour or sugar for the next baking venture. you skipped the ‘firmly pack the brown sugar’ step and instead just poured in an Read more…
So, here is a warmup for my discussion of ‘warmup’. It’s a quick brain dump [not my favorite term, by the way] to get some ideas rolling. It might be a typed list, since I’m currently [obviously] on my laptop, but it might evolve into a mind map in my Read more…
What are the best parts of this book being on the Amazon shelf? I finished a project! There’s nothing like seeing my book available publicly…to spotlight glaring necessary fixes. Offshoot projects resulted from this one. I have more time to create my mini-course on ‘acts of kindness’ writing.
So, back to procrasticooking… Result: 35 new recipes in 30 days. Note: A few sites were repeated. Hard not to fall back on epicurious.com. Discoveries: 1. I’m not sure I followed any of the recipes to their exact specifications. More and more, I’ve been treating recipes as general guidelines rather than strict instructions. Read more…
So, yes, much like the summer of 2010 when I was laid up after Achilles tendon repair, I, like millions of others, am experiencing ‘restricted routines’. Hey, gotta do the right thing for others, including our front-liners. No complaints here. And, as in 2010, it’s freed me up for another Read more…
Okay, maybe it’s not ‘writing’ per se. And I opted out of ‘black’ for the day… Let me know if you’re interested in the simple process to create your own blackout poems. These fun exercises are inspired by Austin Kleon.
I’m working on a mini-course, so I’ll be posting some of the activities here. The activities are intended for a range of writers, though seasoned veterans may not be interested. Again, I’ll be using this site to park some of my works. Here is the short, non-narrated activity.
Totally unrelated to writing, I admit. Just had to include the neighborhood bear’s take on our current state of panic.For some of us, though, it might be another reason to stay home and put in a few more words than usual.