This is my fourth attempt at a post for this week’s blog entry. Let’s see if I actually get anywhere with this one. I had several topics I wanted to write about, but after getting a few sentences into each one, I ran out of steam. Or more precisely, I hated the way the words…
Social Media: Taking a Break or Breaking Away?
Lately, I’ve been toying with the idea of deleting my Twitter account. My philosophy on social media is that it should earn its space in our lives. We should be getting something positive from it, whether its financial, social, or emotional in nature. If I’m being honest with myself, I’m not getting what I need…
My Season of Non-Fiction Creativity: Hands-On Projects
Once upon a time (back in May of this year, to be precise), a fledgling writer proclaimed that she was taking a break from her blog for the summer in order to concentrate on finishing edits to her book. Then, an evil temptress known as Procrastination cast a spell, causing the writer to do practically…
Children’s Book Diversity: Getting the Numbers Right
I’ve thought a lot about the 2018 Diversity in Children’s Books infographic since it was published in June 2019. I put together a Twitter thread about my thoughts on it this past spring, but given the important conversations we’re having (i.e., finally paying attention to) about diverse representation in publishing, I wanted to share my…
Autumn, is that you?
We turned off the air conditioner yesterday and opened the windows, as temps peaked in the comfortable high 70s with a lazy breeze. We kept them open as we slept last night, drifting off to the sound of crickets and tinkling wind chimes. We woke this morning to chilly toes and arms sticking outside the…
Spires Virtual Reading on September 20th
Good morning, world. I’ve got some fun news for your Monday morning! My writing group, the Frederick Writers’ Salon, is hosting a virtual reading on Sunday, September 20th from 3:30-4:45 p.m. for our latest anthology, In the Shadow of the Spires: A Collection of Noir Tales from the Frederick Writers’ Salon. Join our talented authors…
Nurturing Non-Writing Hobbies
By a show of hands, who here today is a writer who fits their passion for storytelling into the spare spaces of their life? *raises hand* Yeah, me too! In fact, there was a time when writing was ALL I did during my free time because it was all I wanted to do. I was…
“But I Did Do Stuff!” A Tale of My Blog Absence
Well, hello there. It’s been a hot minute since I last posted. And by minute, I mean months. Three of them. Three months since I’ve put up anything new on my blog, which might not seem like that long of a time gap to some (I mean, there are blogs out there that have been…
Distractions That Keep Writers From…SQUIRREL!
Taking on the task of writing a full-length finished novel can be daunting and often more laborious than bargained for. That’s why distractions are the number one enemy of writers. It’s not that we want to be distracted. Rather, when faced with a painstaking task, letting minds and bodies wander is simply the path of…
Ranking the 2019 Twilight Zone Episodes
D.M. Domosea. A woman who has long outgrown the idle interests of her youth in supernatural shows like Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, and The Outer Limits. She never sought out these shows and yet they’d draw her in—like a siren song—whenever she’d come across them on TV, usually on a rainy Sunday…
D.M. Domosea 