The weather here in my little swath of the Midwest is a bit bipolar lately. A couple of weeks ago it was subzero (keep in mind I live in Iowa, United States, so I use the Fahrenheit system of measurement) and then it climbed into the 50s. It then dipped back into the 30s and […]
Tag: #WriteYourOwnStory
I still have stories to tell
I often tell people I work a full time job and write on the side. Because, well, that is the absolute truth. The long and short of it is I just don’t know if I could sit at a computer and write all day EVERY day. I need the movement I get from the full […]
New year, same old messy life
If the past few months have taught me anything, it is this: LIFE, even with the best intentions and plans, IS MESSY. Like the Christmas hymn reminds us…. the weary world is in sin and error pining for something better, something more. It seems no matter where one looks these days, there is hatred and […]
I should be writing
I often chide myself because I haven’t been writing much. I should be writing, I think as I twist yarn around the pegs of my knitting loom, working on a hat for a friend for Christmas. I should be writing, I think as I do the chores that have been neglected for days around my […]
Halloween Town: The Haunted Abbey and The Holler
This is a story about my Halloween Town. I used to put a description of the origins of my villages on every post about my villages, but since I have a whole created page about the Village Stories I have written, check it out there if you have no idea what my Halloween Town is. […]
Just when you feel like throwing in the towel
Normally I’d be writing what I call my “sermon reflection” today. But since I skipped church last week due to needing a mental and physical break and never watched the video about it (sorry Pastor Travis!), I don’t have some witty wonderful writing for you about doing unto other and working kindness or love or […]
The Magician will be in paperback soon!
Magical friends, I have an announcement. Remember when I finished posting my serial novel The Magician here on this blog back in June? Well, in talking to some friends of mine who had not started to read it (because admittedly, it’s not everyone’s cup of tea to read fantasy as much as I would love […]
Worlds Apart
I can’t remember the first time I heard the song Worlds Apart by band Jars of Clay, but I can remember one of the times I heard that song. Over twenty years ago, I was deep in the desert in Baja California Sur in Mexico, at a migrant farmworkers’ camp. I had made the fourteen […]
Chicago
Having a family history that spans pretty much one state (I’m looking at you, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania!) and the Eastern Seaboard, I never really thought much about the city of Chicago. I read about it for my history classes. I learned facts that seemed to go in one ear and then out the other about […]
Family history becomes stories
If you follow my blog or any of my social media stuff, you’ll note that this past Saturday, I posted the final chapter of the serial novel I had been working on since November of 2022. The Magician is a twenty-five chapter urban fantasy serialization about an enslaved magician named Ignace Godding and a spirited […]
K. S. Wood Writes 