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Unlock creativity with my free calendar of writing prompts! Use these starters to jumpstart your writing this year.

Kickstart your creativity with these 3 writing prompts to ignite ideas and help you start your year strong!

Best laid plans I had great plans for May. Having plans should have been my first clue that life would throw me a curve ball or four. And...

I love writing prompts. This isn't a surprise since I also love sharing prompts I come up with on my Facebook and Instagram accounts, and...

February is here. A short month with a lot on its shoulders. We have Valentine's Day, which, no matter your feelings on the holiday, can...

Throughout our lives, we experience Extraordinary things, events, people, and places. Just as I think of creative masterpieces and...

When your work involves being creative, it's hard to come up with new ideas day after day, hour after hour. To maintain a creative life,...

If you've ever struggled with what to write, whether in a journal, a poem, a story, a blog post, or even as part of a creative nonfiction...

Over the past few weeks, I've been dealing with an unhappy person.  This person is angry at someone else, and I got caught in the...

Today I had the privilege of spending time in one of my favorite places with my favorite people: a community creativity workshop.  This...

Facebook and poetry may not seem like they go together - at least not from the perspective of using Facebook to generate poetry. But I'm...

Maybe you've been lucky and never drawn a blank when sitting down to write. But if you're like me (and most people), you've sat and...

One of the best things about being writers is that we get to play with reality. When we craft fiction, poetry, and even creative...

Some people swear by the messages in the stars, some find them amusing and harmless, and others find them offensive. No matter your take...

There are many parallels between writing and exercise. With both, it can be challenging to get started. We’ll swear tomorrow’s the day we...

Check out the original post on my Cupertino Poet Laureate website! It’s April, and that means it is National Poetry Month! Even though I...