creativity

Diary of a (Now) Agented #Writer: a timeline

by rosedeniz April 23, 2016 books

Tweet Summer, 1986: Age 8. Beat-up maroon rocking chair, yellow legal pad. Perfect handwriting giving way to messy scrawls. Perfectionist in me balks. Crumples up paper and throws onto the living room floor. Stories about horses and girl-run candy shops never see the light of day. Spring, 1990. Spelling bee runner-up. Loses to ‘sciscors’. I mean, […]

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Humming and hermits and big washes of color

by rosedeniz December 21, 2012 creativity

For the first time in my life, I show up late to things, dawdle when I am supposed to run out the door, and let people do stuff for me – you know, like help.

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Dress code for first draft success

by rosedeniz March 21, 2012 books

This is my new, totally improved, and uber-fabulous writer look.

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52 weeks of breakthrough

by rosedeniz January 15, 2012 creativity

Tweet Ready for your very own personal adventure? Sometimes something comes along right when we need it. Right when we need that push. Or nudge. Or maybe even just that whisper in our ear to trust our instincts, don’t hold back, stretch out into our truth. A Year With Myself is that very thing […]

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A Quiet Day {Soul Compass #ayearwithmyself Prompt}

by rosedeniz January 9, 2012 creativity

Where do you find your soul’s compass? Goddess Leonie asks on #AYearWithMyself. This is my answer. {Photo: Pinterest Kelley Pye-Dancer}

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I’ll stitch you the moon and stars.

by rosedeniz December 27, 2011 creativity

Next year I’ll stitch you the moon and stars.

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Coiffed. Are You?

by rosedeniz December 3, 2011 creativity

I was 21, a junior in college, and living across the street from the Thai restaurant that gave me and both of my roommates indigestion whenever we ate it (weekly), when I found my first gray. Where were you?

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