I didn't expect to post fiction or creative writing on every Friday for a year. If I had intended to do that I would have published the first post on January 3, 2014 (the first Friday of the year) instead of on January 10th (the second Friday), but I didn't expect the fiction posts to … Continue reading 4 things I learned from a year of Fiction Fridays
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I am currently reading 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write: On Umbrellas and Sword Fights, Parades and Dogs, Fire Alarms, Children, and Theater by Sarah Ruhl. I may write a review of it at some point, but to do so now would be unfair since I've only read one essay. (Heck, getting through the … Continue reading Sarah Ruhl on life intruding on writing
November is NaBloPoMo, National Blog Posting Month, when many bloggers pledge to blog every day of the month. Because it can be challenging to come up with things to write about every day there are many lists of NaBloPoMo writing prompts to give people ideas for blog posts. This is one of those, but it's … Continue reading 30 blog writing prompts that don’t tell you what to write
I googled myself. Inspired by boredom and narcissism I not only googled my current self, but I googled my former self. I googled my maiden name. I didn't expect to see anything I didn't already know about: old theatre reviews, my master's thesis, my sole IMDB credit. Instead, I was shocked to find that I … Continue reading How I became an Amazon ebook author without knowing it
When people talk about work-life balance they are usually talking about how much time a woman spends working on her career versus spending time with her family. One imagines a two-sided scale with family on one side and job on the other. If you don't have enough time for one side you move it from … Continue reading Work-life balance is an over-simplification
Kim Z. Dale 