The Full Blood Wolf Moon A full Blood Wolf Moon? Just the name alone conjures up plenty of scary images to chill your bones during this 2019 winter! The January Full Moon is also known as the "Moon After Yule." In antiquity, January was the month with the deepest snows and coldest winds. This was … Continue reading The January Blood Wolf Full Moon
WELCOME TO TANKA TUESDAY! Hi! I’m glad to see you here. Are you ready to write some syllabic poetry? It’s the middle of the month challenge ~ time for a photo prompt! This month we will use a photo chosen by last month’s “Photo-Prompt” Poet of the Week ~ Jane Dougherty. Use the above photo […]
A Special Children’s Book Review About this Book: WILBUR is a small, shy tractor. He loves cutting the grass for Jim. But what happens when he must find a new home? Will Jim still be his friend? Who will the new owner be? WILBUR would love for you to take him home and read about […]
Welcome to the Tanka Tuesday Poetry Recap featuring the Poet of the Week and any honorable mention poetry that really caught my eye. If you would like to participate in this challenge, you can learn the rules in the menu item called Colleen’s Weekly Tanka Tuesday Guidelines. What a fun week! I enjoyed everyone’s take on […]
Hello everyone! This week I’m thrilled to bring you a multi-award winning author, Jan Sikes. I asked her to pick three or four questions from my huge list HERE. We all aspire to be successful authors and the best way to learn some of the tricks of the trade is to ask questions. I recently […]
This week for my poetry challenge, the words were “enchant and fly.” Finding different synonyms than everyone else proved to be rather interesting. So, for enchant, I used bewitched. For fly, I used a phrase, take flight. bewitched by the moonsynchronicity stymiedstartled—birds take flight ©2019 Colleen M. Chesebro What are you doing tonight to celebrate […]
Featuring your next weekend read! In the Author’s Words: “Gathering Water” Book OneGrowing up as a foster kid, there’s plenty Della Doe doesn’t know—like who her parents were and what her real name is. On the day she ages out of the system, Della knows her constrained life will be forever changed, but she didn’t […]
Attention Poets: Who’s ready to write some Haibun POETRY? Not sure how to write a Haibun Poem? Click HERE. So, Here’s the scoop on this contest: The Submission Period and Deadline are 1st September – 15th December 2019. Please do “not” use the cattails submissions guidelines for contests. RESULTS: The names of winners (only) will be notified by […]
Originally posted on Carrot Ranch Literary Community:
Grit abrades, wears down, even crumbles into quartz sand or the stuff you sprinkle on porcelain to scrub it clean. True grit is a roughness on the inside, a rocky kind of defiance in the face of life’s storms. Grit is determination, resilience, perseverance. Writers scrubbed words into…
