Tag: Writer Girl

  • Love Letters for My Muse

    The last two days have been . . . not good. I woke up having had terrible dreams. My day got worse the later it got. I had big plans for writing and got nowhere but doom scrolling. I added a reminder to my phone not to doom scroll. Let’s…

  • Maybe it’s a Miracle. Maybe it’s Maybelline.

    Maybe it’s my new haircut. Maybe it’s buying prepared food from Clean Eatz and Wegman’s (so I don’t have to cook after work). Maybe it’s my Muse. Maybe it’s my new bras. Or possibly my playlist. Maybe it’s the limerence. Or maybe it’s that I don’t live in a suburban…

  • Nurturing My Writing – Creating a New Writing Space

    Yesterday evening, I sat in my new writing corner and wrote more than 2,000 words on my novel in progress, Land of Canaan. I’ve only been writing 100-ish words (here or there) on the poor thing for quite a while now. As I was writing I realized how long it…

  • Love Letters & Bad Poetry

    Listen – I’m tired of writing into the void. No one cares, right? 🤣🤓 It’s seems like a waste of time to post here. At the end of the day, I write because I have to. It’s an actual need. My biggest challenge right now is that I write the…

  • Aaron & Annie: A Short Story About Cutting Yourself Free

    Tonight, I sat at my desk in the front bedroom, facing North Carolina Avenue. This busy southeast D.C. neighborhood somehow seems busier on autumn evenings. From my perch, the neighbor’s walk home from the Metro or Capitol Hill. And every once in a while, I laugh at the man I…