National Braille Literacy Month January, honors Louie Braille (born on January 4, 1809), creator of the braille system that now bears his name. Braille created his universal code system for reading and writing to be used by people who are blind, or visually impaired...
Do you favor one type of genre or do you dabble in more than one? I find it very satisfying to challenge myself to write in different genres and especially enjoy incorporating storytelling into nonfiction. I’m published in nonfiction, literary nonfiction, fiction,...
Exertion - definition: vigorous action or effort It is inevitable that as we accumulate file folders, books, notebooks and reference paraphernalia, our writing space becomes cluttered and dis-organized. Depending on how you view this - we all have varying degrees of...
Trajectory – definition: the curve that an object travels along through space (such as a bullet, a rocket, or a planet in its orbit) What a shame this word was not on my desk diary a couple of days ago, it would have been perfect for the spectacular but frightening...
Commodious - definition: having a comfortable amount of space. We all need space in which to flourish, live and create. How many of us have a writing space? It may be the end of the dining room table, (that's how I started) a real writing desk or if we are extremely...
Maybe I should firstly explain what querencia means. The dictionary definition is lair, haunt, den, homing instinct but in reality it is any ‘place’ you feel safe in, happy in. By place I do not just mean a physical area such as beside the ocean, walking in a forest...