Mental Breakfast: Why Writers Need A Morning Routine
Looking for a way to increase productivity? Check out my morning routine ideas and how they make me a better, more focused writer.
Author: Colleen Watson
Survival Isn’t Enough: Why art matter
I reminder that, in the darkest times hope, and art, matter
Why Century Plant Is Called Century Plant
Every business needs a name. Why Century Plant? Because it symbolizes perfectly me, a late bloomer.
Describing My Ideal Writing Day: A Tentative Schedule
It’ a Tuesday morning in Colorado. The sun it out, though snow is on the way. It’s February, so that’s nothing new. A pre-snow day and I’m having a lazy one. Not a good idea when I have an article and a blog post due, but I can’t seem to …
I Don’t Want To Write Today: Writing advice from the trenches
The best metaphor I ever heard to describe writing, well, anything from blog posts to novel goes: writing is walking across Australia. You have the start with all the inspiration and hope (along with beaches and Guinness if you play it right). At the end, you achieved your desired goal; …
The Best Writing Places and Spaces: An Opinion
A room of ones own, the simple desire of writers, all artists really. A place where creativity and hard work come together to realize a novel, painting or song. The room, that mythical writing place and space, has, as so much has, altered in the twenty-first century. Once it involved …
The Joy of Rereading books: 4 Books That Pulled Me Back
Any book can be read and enjoyed once. Most books we read fall into this category, no shade implied. The author wrote a story that kept their reader engaged until the end, a mighty feat. Some books, though, have a different effect. Some books pull at you, invade your thought …
The Nate and Jeremiah Project, Or My Therapy Sessions
Mina and Karen. Chip and Joanna, Ben and Erin. All duos known and loved by watchers of HGTV, including me. I always say I don’t watch reality TV, but I tell a fib. What I don’t watch are the ones that feel a bit too much like a game show …
My Issues With Facebook: Why I Left and Returned
It’s around March of 2017 and Donald Trump is President and a company I never heard about, Cambridge Analytics, is in the news. If you don’t know the story, here’s and article, and movie Brexit starting Benedict Cumberbatch showing its influence in the UK. What I remember about that time was …
5 Helpful Website Rules: What Fits In the Frame
Frames. What do you think of when I say the word. Maybe the fancy ones surrounding great art on the walls of museums. Maybe a single image in a strip of film. In terms a blog thought, it does not seem applicable. I disagree and have given it one. A …