Image by Creativity+ Timothy K Hamilton via Flickr Written by Karen D. Swim Possibilities, shades of maybe, bouncing prisms of what if. Nerve endings tingling as you wonder, could this be the one? Blank page breathlessly waiting for ideas to caress. Fragments gently spill to fill the space, heart beats faster, mind and fingers rhythmically [...]
Down the Rabbit Hole and into the Archives
May 13, 2009 By 10 Comments
Written by Karen D. Swim Yesterday, I went digging through my writing file. Not the nicely polished, edited pieces file, nope. The file. The electronic brain dump with snippets of poorly written dialogue and half baked story ideas. Some were so awful that I blushed with embarrassment as I quickly closed the file. Others were [...]
Top 10 Reasons to Avoid Post Procrastination
April 30, 2009 By 20 Comments
Written by Karen D. Swim When it comes to blogging, there is no greater advice than planning (writing and scheduling) posts in advance. Develop your monthly calendar in advance and plan blocks of time to write. I could seriously be the poster child for the “before” of not planning. Actually, I do plan but then [...]
Butterfly Wings
March 31, 2009 By 7 Comments
Image via Wikipedia Written by Karen D. Swim When I was 6 or 7 years old I caught a butterfly in a jar. My little girl innocence led me to believe that the butterfly would be happy in its glass prison. I put a leaf , the head of a aisy, and a few blades [...]
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