Exclusivity Does Not Mean Sustainability
On yet another blog post concerning social media marketing, this week we’re discussing Orkut, the social networking site named after Google’s creator: Orkut Buyukkokten. Background The social networking site launched in 2004, which is considered early in…
A Hole in One or Too Much In One?
This is yet another blog post as a homework assignment. This one is a study on the Chinese social media app Weixin (Way-Shin). Weixin is an all-in-one platform where users can do anything and everything it seems. It’s compared to What’sApp in the United States. I…
Hooray For Boobies!
Contrary to the title, this is not a music review for the 1999 album by the Bloodhound Gang. Sorry fellow music enthusiasts. Now that I have your attention, this week, we’re talking about the breast cancer awareness meme popular on facebook every October. The confusing one…
Glasses For the Masses
How Warby Parker Changed the Options for Eye Wear This is part one of many explorations on companies and their effective uses of Social Media. Warby Parker, the glasses company. We’ve all seen the commercials on TV or while waiting for our latest YouTube video to load. They…
I enjoy when a homework discussion post begins to feel like a blog post. Getting my priorities straight and diving back into writing!
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#creativewriting #procrastination #accountability
34 Writing Tips (In no Particular order)
Writing never has to be perfect. It does have to be understandable. A writing session can be anything from 1 word and beyond. If you wrote on your phone, you’re still a writer. Reading is inhaling, writing is exhaling. Not all days have to be writing days.…
Writing something a little more personal on Medium. April is always a great mental health month full of positive emotions. 🙄
#aprilsucks #writer #medium
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On Writing By Hand
Some affiliate links listed here, gotta pay the bills somehow, right? When I first began to write seriously (Ok fine, semi-seriously) at around 14, I had no smart devices or even a computer. I started writing my first novel in a spiral bound notebook with a pencil. Image created…
Top Three Writing Tips
I can’t believe we’re in April. April, despite being the start of Spring and warmer weather, is always a horrible month for me. Not only do I have two birthdays followed by death days (yeah, those suck hardcore!), but there are several anniversaries of deaths over the last…
Little Late on this Monday evening, but a new post is up over on Substack.
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So remember that short story challenge I did in January? I’d call this a success!
Thank you @nycmidnight for the awesome prompt and the little win I needed this year. Here we go to round 2!
#shortstory #romanticcomedy #ontoround2 #writinghumor
Goodbye and Good Riddance NaNoWriMo
Well, it’s happened. I woke up to the news this morning that NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) will be no more. They’re shutting down. Part of me hopes this is an April Fools’ prank. Part of me feels like a weight is lifted from my shoulders. After the…
Books I Started in 2024 and Hope to Finish in 2025
Photo by Ed Robertson on Unsplash Here we are in 2025, a new year, a new opportunity to make things better than last year. New year, new goals. All of that positive new year stuff. There was a lot I wanted to do in 2024 that has now moved in to…
Bre in a dental chair, grimacing waiting for a root canal.
Nothing like a surprise root canal to ruin plans for a day off. Yesterday the work got done. Today I’m hurting.
Pro-Tip: Don’t go over the handlebars of your bike and smash your face. You’ll be dealing with dental issues FOREVER!
#bikecrash #dentalwork #nowritingdone
Unsolicited writing advice, no. #1131333:
To those of you who are afraid, know this. Every act of creation is an act of courage. By making art, you are joining the fight. You are the resistance.
2025 First Quarter Goals
Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash Here we are in 2025! This year already feels like a breath of fresh air. A new book with 365 pages to make something with. Because 2024 was so terrible, I’ve decided I’m going to move to quarterly goals for 2025. That way, I have more…
2024 Wrap up
Is it finally gone? Did we make it through that awful year? Ok, good. The me at the start of 2024 and the me now are two vastly different people. In 2024, before the chaos hit, I had a lot of goals I wanted to reach and projects I wanted to get done. A quick reminder of what those…
2024 has been a doozy of a year!
CW: Mentions of death, grief, loss, surgical procedures. Deeply personal post about how awful 2024 was. Read at your own risk.
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Word count on screen: 2,025 Words
I’ll take it as a good sign when the post I’ve written about 2024 being an awful year ends with this word count.
#newyear #lettinggo #isit2025yet
Still We Sing
Christmas is different this year, With so many friends and family missing from our table. So many stories left untold, Lives left unlived. Things lost that can never be returned. Still we sing Christmas Carols, Wish good tidings, And quietly pray for a better year ahead.
Guess who’s back posting on the #Substack! Just in time for some holiday cheer!
#christmas #christmascarols #music #humbleopinion
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"Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow...You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."
~Kurt Vonnegut
To Be a Better Writer, Do More Than Only Write
I’ve always called myself a writer, ever since I started writing little short stories I never finished at 7. I’ve always used writing as an escape, from life, from homework, from friends and family. It’s taken me years (and an SSRI, and ADHD…
After a brief hiatus, I’m back posting about music. Here’s five musical facts about me!
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Slowly getting back into my weekly postings. I was inspired over the last few weeks.
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Bride and Groom kissing.
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate!
I’m thankful for a lot of things this year, but what I’m most thankful for is my husband and the life we’ve built together.
#LoveYouToPlutoandBack #Thankful #HerestoMoreAdventures
Do you peel it, or does it peel you? 🤔
