• 12 instant pick-me-ups

    12 instant pick-me-ups

    I’m not in the habit of making lemonade when life gives me lemons. Because my first reaction to an adversity is plain denial with the fervent hope that if I don’t see it, it won’t see me. The time period between me realizing that the problem is real may have reduced with age, but my…

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  • Questions you shouldn’t ask a writer

    Telling someone I’m a writer has always gotten me a mix bag of responses. Some people look at me with envy. Some look at me with pity. Sometimes people will talk about how much the idea of writing scares them. Many times, I will hear a variation of: I have this amazing story – why…

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  • Little bird, little bird

    Little bird, little birdHush, don’t make faces nowDo you want your face to be stuck in that mask?

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  • 5 gems my sister has bestowed

    I have a younger sibling. Which means no matter what I do, or where I am in life, I will always have this one person who will smother me with her love one moment, accuse me of cramping her style in the next moment and cry tears of anguish the third moment because I’m not…

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  • What’s my mood board

    What’s my mood board

    I love the recent trend of making mood boards, character sketches, Spotify playlists and book trailers to give the reader an understanding of the vibe a book is going for. It’s such a cool way of engaging all your senses while reading, making it an immersive experience.

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  • Writer’s anonymous

    Writer’s anonymous

    I have been having a weird time finding the will to stick to writing. I have tried just about everything and I will start a writing project and inevitably, I will abandon it. I have told myself to give it a break, I have told myself maybe I’m not feeling it, I have tried going…

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  • Barbie and being Kenough

    Generally, when I watch a woman-centric movie, I am accompanied by this melancholy that stems from knowing a lot of people won’t watch it because it’s “talking about a cause I don’t relate with” or “I’m not the right audience” or “how many times will they say the same thing, we know things have to…

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