social persona & pen name of maria faith walls
This year I am doing some new things. I feel finally ready to embrace plotting over pantsing. Organizing my work ahead of time over winging it and letting the story unfold as I write. Last few years my mind has resembled more a herd of wild horses following the thunderous bellows of an unseen dragon. …
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This month I will be preparing for November's National Novel Writing Month. Also known as #nanowrimo. We call ourselves rhinos. Fifty thousand words in a month to win. If I participate this year, it will be my fourth year. Twice I have won. The first time I just showed up. I think I did approximately …
Many of you know the plan is, like life, a crookedly profound harmony. It is a magical storytelling circle that is going on at all times. It's like a poem or a prayer - if you like, but something that comes from the heart primarily. Then maybe the mind can help too. We read stories …
Fun bag Friday pics coming soon! I decided to go with a small D / full C - like I was before, well except the times I was a B or DD or when nursing, F! Especially in case I have radiation - which I'm hoping not - and because I'm a complete responder for …
I was 15. At least I think I was. We were studying literature from the Brittanica encyclopedia. It was an old Red Cross building. Old like I found newspapers from the '40s when I went with the cleaning team. It was our own school. Sometimes later I would call it Hogwartz because it wasn't a …
