by Clarissa | Oct 26, 2017 | writing |
Hi everyone! Today I have a special post as part of the Writers Persevere event that authors Angela Ackerman and Becca Puglisi are running for the next few days to celebrate their newest book, The Emotional Wound Thesaurus: A Writer’s Guide to Psychological Trauma....
by Clarissa | Oct 19, 2017 | family, personal, writing |
There’s been a lot of publicity over the last few days about the prevalence of sexual assault and harassment. Mainly against women, but we are by no means the only victims in this. My Facebook feed has been full of comments saying “Me too” and...
by Clarissa | Aug 22, 2017 | writing |
In February I wrote about how I was starting to write. And I’m pleased to say that I’ve continued. I’ve written at least 100 words every day this year. Some days much more than that. In total I’ve written over 65k words, 39k of which is on my...
by Clarissa | Aug 1, 2017 | writing |
I started my first wordpress blog in August 2007, so I’m now marking my tenth anniversary. Though I did have a different blog before that which has now disappeared. So I’m not sure exactly how long I have been blogging, but at least ten years. I’ve...
by Clarissa | May 27, 2017 | writing
I have a few times contributed to the 10 minute novelists drabble competitions. This is a challenge to write a 100 word story using three set words or phrases. And each story has to have a start, middle and end – so it is a whole story, which is surprisingly...
by Clarissa | Feb 13, 2017 | writing
I keep saying every year how I want to write more: I could find posts saying this for 2017, 2016, 2015, 2012, & 2011. This year I have actually started as I mean to go on and have been writing, a little bit every day, as I can. Sometime last year I joined the 10...