I am an advocate of Morning Pages — of Writing Each Morning — to Free One’s Creativity. For that reason, I am offering the Water Valley Breakfast Club as a time and place to congregate and Free Write together. The Best News is that the Breakfast Club is Free–both monetarily and in terms of its…
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Free Breakfast Club Coming to 26 South Main in Water Valley, MS — Great for Writers
Early morning is the most crucial time of my day, and according to several authors I trust, it is the essential time for writers to prime their pumps. “I have learned, on my journeys, that if I let a day go by without writing, I grow uneasy. Two days and I am in tremor. Three…
The Seed for My Picture Book The Donkey’s Song Was Planted When I Was A Child – #Memoir – Harvest Your Past
In October of 2022 Doubleday for Young Readers [a Division of Penguin Random House] Published My Debut Picture Book The Donkey’s Song. Everything about The Donkey’s Song is a miracle. One of the greatest miracles is that when Donkey was published, I was 72. But I had been carrying that story with me all my…
Time to Set Up Bird Feeders and Plant Wildflowers – Winter Comes Too Soon: Memoir Mondays
There’s a frenzy in my garden, Squirrels can’t get enough. Birds are looking frantically For seeds and nuts and stuff. The corn is dry and shriveled now, A vine has reached the top. Fading leaves are bending low, And bright red apples drop. – Jacki Kellum – I began writing the abovee picture book manuscript…