Work for Blooming Twig Books
Vocab Madness
You think back to a crisp autumn day in the mountains. Though the sun is warm, it is undercut with a chill on the wind that rustles the vibrant leaves in the trees above and fills you with an urge to explore. You are maybe eight years old and have a desire to climb everything in sight. After picnicking in the woods, you run off. Your mom yells after you to stay close, but you cannot contain the adventurer within…
read more >>Vocab Madness – Insouciant
A swirl of sap green and yellow ochre is smeared across her palette, the oils mixing to form the transient hues of a breeze across the meadow. She picks up her palette knife to mix that subtle hint of lavender that permeates the cerulean-colored sky, and with an old rag dabs the new color in a smear that completes the heavens of earth. This is her painting. But her sketchbook is open as well…
read more >>Vocab Madness – Abbozzo
Weekly Blog
Today I am sitting beneath the shade of a Magnolia tree. The leaves are thick and green, but it does nothing to quell the stifling heat of the air around me. The dry yellowed grasses of weeks without rain crinkle between my toes, and the leaves above me twitch longingly for a breeze to ride upon. Though a hawk screeches overhead in search of prey, the critters below stay in shelter from the sun. The reign of the sun’s heat blazes to a suffocating level. Yet, there is a moisture that lingers, the promise of a storm in the days to come—a wash of cooling relief to quench the earth that sings with dryness.
read more >> blog–writing in the moment
They say the hardest part of writing is beginning. Perhaps the trial runs deeper. When you go to sit down and write, what lies in front of you? Pen and paper? Pencil and notebook? Laptop or tablet? Typewriter? These are your tools—your ways of wielding the words that will bring your story to life. How do you know which is right for you?
read more >> blog–is the pen mightier than the computer
blog–writers block what to read
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