Tag: novel

• The Broken Wings by Kahlil Gibran, A Review and Reflection, After Studying This Writers’ Circle for Years

  

  I read this novel, The Broken Wings by artist and author, Kahlil Gibran (1912) this Saturday morning, a brief and very flowing read, the book found by me the day of my Art Show Reception, at the local library beforehand, unexpectedly, as I was looking for a couple of books to pick one to start…

  03/11/2023 5:47 pm

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• Sewing Surprise, Novel Neatness, Painting, and Miscellaneous

  

  (Photo quote by literary salon host May Ziadeh) Sewing Surprise At the literary salon birthday edition much was shared in my own prayerful personal reflection at the start, and who knew I could mend my own winter coat? I have no problem having a tailor in town sew it, or hem pants. It’d been awhile…

  02/07/2023 1:43 pm

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• A Day in Pictures: A Creative Literary Morning

  

  morning sencha tea, dreaming eyes, letting light into my eyes and face, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte (1847) for later on. after tea, may read Jane Eyre: I partly lived inside this book in my current life and did not remember that?😅 my novel printed draft so far, first 6 pgs, 3000 words, and handwritten…

  11/29/2022 10:42 am

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• A Very Cute Blue Cookie

  

  A poetic line came to mind just before I met the NaNoWriMo writers tonight…It brought me to the more center place in my story’s theme, as I was getting myself thrown into a corner before that in my draft. I told a little visual from my own draft to relate to the other writers’ stories.…

  11/18/2022 8:47 pm

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• NaNoWriMo Write Together at Barnes and Noble

  This was my first NaNoWriMo meeting at Barnes and Noble this evening, Sunday. I’d arrived a little later than everyone else and was glad to write together with this very welcoming group of fellow writers, and the leader even gave us beautiful flower stickers sent from the NaNoWriMo organization as a celebration, I placed mine…

  11/13/2022 6:51 pm

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• So Begins Chapter Two, and Writing Together in Massachusetts

  

  Friday, FEATURED This one is black tea with almond milk, afterwards Another morning of green tea (gyokuru) followed by writing my novel, this time I wrote my draft of Chapter Two, but I feel that this chapter will still continue after the point that I stopped at at 1305 words today when I continue writing…

  11/11/2022 4:44 pm

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• A Selfie Moment

  

  I’ve started writing my first novel today. The characters may be fictional, but I took a selfie break, as I’d felt like today. And it has been, that I am actually real. I intend to write the characters to feel very real enough to let the reader step inside the story themselves. I have the…

  11/10/2022 3:00 pm

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