What Do You Want to Make Today?
It’s National Poetry Month, so I had already planned some creative challenges around poetry, but I read online today that it is International Haiku Poetry Day, so who am I to pass up the chance to write a haiku (or several)? What is Haiku? It’s likely you had to write haiku in school, but if […]
I’m not going to get all “Glory Days” on you, but the more I think about it, 1996 was the year when everything happened. My senior year in high school was also the year I started dating my husband. My grandmother and one of my favorite teachers died. There was the pain of not being […]
I’ve been cleaning my office this month, and I recently came across a bottle of magentic poetry words I’d kind of forgotten I had. Do you have some of these? They’re actually a lot of fun. If you’re somehow unfamiliar with the concept, it’s a collection of random words on magnets. You grab some and […]
I have always felt bad about calling this a craft challenge (though it’s called that because in my head it’s the Our Daily Craft Challenge) when really it’s all about boosting creativity in all sorts of ways. But you all will just have to bear with the name and realize that we’re doing a lot […]
I don’t know why it is that November is the month with all the challenges. I guess it started with NaNoWriMo, aka National Novel Writing Month. There’s also NaNoReadMo, started by Austin Kleon, which charges readers to share a novel they loved each day of the month. (There apparently also used to be a novel […]
This week’s notions is inspired by the fact that last weekend was the fifth Arkansas Women Bloggers University conference, which took place in Hot Springs and was, by all accounts, fabulous. (I wasn’t there because it was my birthday weekend.) While I wasn’t there to get the knowledge live, I’m happy to pick up some […]
I’ve recently started writing for a local food publication, which is the closest to journalism I’ve come in a few years. A colleague has commented a couple of times on my ability to find stories and to see stories where she just says, “oh, that’s interesting.” In the biz, they call that having good news […]