Why Owls - a Spring Fling Poem
It's snowing one day and hot the next, so it must be Spring! The Spring Fling Kidlit contest is open for entries through 4/3/22. This contest hosted by Ciara O'neal and Kaitlyn Sanchez is for stories under 150 words for k…
Read more
Bloom! A poem for Spring
Vivian Kirkfield hosts an annual #50PreciousWords contest in March which challenges writers to pen a story under 50 words. Please read a few of the wonderful entries in the comments of her post. I had one of those waking dreams…
Read more
Ten Years!
Ten years ago today I wrote my first blogpost. That day I claimed to be Committing to be a Writer. Posting that on the interwebs for the whole wide world (or really a few writing friends and some spammers) to see must ha…
Read more
My Gummy Love
Monday is Valentine's Day, and the best way to celebrate is writing a story for kids! Enter Susanna Hill's Valentiny contest. Stories must be 214 words or less, about Valentines Day, and about someone feeling proud . Rea…
Read more
Kids Choice!
Update: Quiet as a Butterfly Fart won an Honorable Mention! Thank you Kailei for the fun contest. See the other winners here. How fun is this? Kailei Pew is hosting a kids choice contest with 100 kid judges. Stories can be all …
Read more
A Year of Gratitude
A Year of Gratitude Julie Hedlund’s 12 Days of Christmas renewal process has been a great way to start the year. Even though I’ve done it several years, there are always new learnings. This year when I got to day 7, Practicing…
Read more
The Witch's Gingerbread House
UPDATE: Witch's Gingerbread House won an Honorable Mention for the contest as a whole. yay!! December is flying and so were the words tonight as I wrote my very last minute entry to Susanna Hill's annual holiday story con…
Read more
Writer * Poet * Curiosity Seeker
My Socials