I owe a great deal of credit for my writing skills to my parents, especially my mother. When I was very little, I would make up stories in my head and tell them to her. She encouraged me to write them down. So I did. Often in crayon. These stories were often illegible since my […]
Category: Reading and Writing
Stuff I’ve written about writing and reading in particular.
Productivity
I once had a discussion with an acquaintance over how much sleep a person needs. He was convinced that only “lazy” people get the recommended eight hours or more of sleep. His argument…. Imagine how much more one could accomplish in their day if they shaved even an hour of sleep off of their schedule? […]
Gratitude
I am starting out by saying I am not writing this post looking for fame or pats on the back. I write this because I feel led to write this. A year ago, I made the decision to quit a job I was floundering in. A year ago, I had interviewed and accepted a position […]
Advice….
I have heard a great deal of writing advice over the years. The ones that seem to stick out the most in my mind though are the writing advices given to me by my teachers of so long ago. In middle school, I had a teacher who drummed it into my head that words like […]
Accomplishments
I’ve long deleted the message, but a few years ago I was told via a text from someone I thought I was close to that I had no accomplishments of my own, so I was hanging on to those made by others as if they were mine. In reality, I was extremely happy for this […]
Write Your Own Story
I recently was asked by a good friend why I often use the hash tag #writeyourownstory on my various social media posts. It started out as just a simple phrase that I typed into one of my novels in a moment of inspiration. I didn’t plan it out, I just wrote the words and they […]
Drafts
I often get mad at myself when I write my stories. You see, I have all these ideas in my head, but when I begin to write them down, my attention issues get in the way. I get so focused on getting ONE detail or word right that by the time I get that done, […]
Writing and more writing
I write. It’s what I do. So I often compose wonderful sentences in my mind that my fingers furiously try to keep track of when I am either handwriting them down, or when I am sitting at my computer. The words flow out, creating a lyrical jumble of words. But sometimes, I write words that […]
NaNoWriMo2021 Update
It’s already almost halfway through November and what a wild ride this has been already! I wanted to give my wonderful readers an update on my National Novel Writing Month 2021 challenge. I have been faithfully writing every single day this month thus far (sometimes more than once a day too!) and have hit over […]
Rainy Days and Mondays Don’t Always Get Me Down
Forrest Gump AND the Carpenters in one post???? Who would have thunk? 😉
K. S. Wood Writes 