After a winter that lasted forever, the sun finally came out. So I wrote a quick lunch break poem about it.
The Sun Showed His Face
Category: Writing
A Bagel in Reno
I'm sitting at the pristine succulent-lined café bar, the city on pause outside, filtered out by clean air and soft music. An elevator ride away and I’ll be in a smoky lobby, surrounded by bells and sirens, the sounds of celebration drowning out the silence of despair.
Big City – Short Fiction
The air had a bite to it, a slapping sting to her fevered skin, as they exited the crowded jazz club into the misty night.
Treat your craft (writing, art, etc) like a priority
The biggest obstacle in a creative person’s life is how they view their art. Do you see it as a priority, or is it merely a hobby? If you’d like to find ways to add more creativity to your life in 2020, read this.
No, Crissi, you can’t do all the things
Everyone has limits. Here are mine.
All the NaNoWriMo words
Here's a peek at my NaNoWriMo word count stats, and how I made a phobia-ridden turtle trainer get on a plane for a scavenger hunt in Fiji.
Answering the hard questions about life as a writer
There are the usual questions readers ask authors. But what about the hard ones? I answer those questions here.
6 books that will help you prep for NaNoWriMo
To get you ready for National Novel Writing Month, here are my favorite books on writing and creativity.
Too busy to write? Or just procrastinating?
Instead of treating my writing as a priority, I treated it like a hobby, placing it much lower than everything else just because it was something I wanted to do vs. something I had to do.
Letter from my 8-year-old self
In my journey through the Artist’s Way, this week’s assignment was to mentally time travel to when I was 8, and remember what life was like for me back then. So here’s what I remember.
