Author Archives: wordsandcoffee1

Poem: “When the sun stood still”

Kitchen windows slashed with early sunset My course of existence forever bent On a day knowing nine hours of light Came the call that left me sunspot-blind Cancer is a metaphor in many songs Scale notes and melodies painting with my blood The needle dips and drags late December’s paint Sunless days marked in tunnelsContinue reading “Poem: “When the sun stood still””

Descriptive Writing with Imagery

This video is a bit different– it’s an example of one of the activities I use with my creative writing students to help them build their descriptive writing skills. I’ve learned similar techniques in writing courses and put my own sort of spin on it over the years. The technique involves dividing a paper intoContinue reading “Descriptive Writing with Imagery”

Writing Goals from Your Unique Perspective

Can we strengthen our writing through specific goals and unique character perspectives? I hope so! I believe many of us writers are so passionate about our work because we hope to change the world in some way or inspire others through our thoughts and ideas. This video looks at my not-so-writerly life after my MAContinue reading “Writing Goals from Your Unique Perspective”

Just Keep Writing!

Today’s message is to keep writing. Through the downfalls and pitfalls, through life’s tragedies (major or minor), and through the constant flow of rejection, we can still persevere as writers. This video offers a bit of a respite with a positive query rejection and tips to keep motivated through it all.

The Ways We Impact Others

I’ve been thinking about the ways that our smaller choices impact others, from the words we tell a loved one in haste to the items we share or the gifts that we don’t. In my video, I talk more specifically about the ways that the seasons impact and leave their impressions on us, the waysContinue reading “The Ways We Impact Others”

Surviving October

This is my second video for Breast Cancer Awareness Month, honoring my own second year as a #survivor. This one is focused on ways that breast cancer survivors deal with this month of October and my realization that it is okay to deal with this month in a vast number of ways. I also included advice for young people on how to be proactive in their own health.

Emotional Recovery

In honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I wanted to create a couple of videos focused on emotional recovery and ways that we recover from treatment. This is the first of two videos focused on that process. Note: Watching my own videos, I realize I sort of laugh a bit at things that are moreContinue reading “Emotional Recovery”