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Hello, friends! Another old draft revisited. This one is from 2019! Hard to believe that it's been six years since then. Boy, does time fly! This draft was pretty sparse, but I love the idea of it, so I thought I'd expound on it. There are treasures that we find, that did not begin their [...]
Hello, friends! I've been revisiting my drafts on here, and while some of them are not worthy of seeing the light of day, this one I thought was compelling and still all too true. I've written a blog post before about ways to combat writer's block, but gosh, does writer's block feel terrible. I want [...]
Hello, friends! I finished The God of the Woods by Liz Moore today and it was SO good. I wanted to hop on here and talk about it!!! This book follows several characters associated with an Adirondack summer camp. We go from the 1950's to present day -- August 1975. Our story begins when one [...]
Hello friends, I've been thinking about this blog a lot lately. How I can best proceed with writing on it, if I should continue to write on it, and why I should or why I shouldn't. I've been having a rough go of it - I feel as though I wasn't writing because I enjoyed [...]
Hello, friends! This is a draft from a few months ago. I reread Twilight, New Moon, and Eclipse for the first time since I was a teenager. I've been working my way through Breaking Dawn, but honestly, the first hundred pages of these books (minus Twilight) are always a little slow. There is SO much [...]
Midwest Mattie 