Losing Brilliance to AIDS
carriejonesbooks I posted this twelve years ago on WORLD AIDS DAY. It was WORLD AIDS DAY again on Sunday. So I am posting it again. Back when I was in college…
December 2019
Sparty Inspiration
Believe in yourself, in your imagination. Success is having faith in your dreams, so much faith that you abandon worry. Success is going after what you want and doing it…
Florida Man and the Queen of Kittens
Stories are about people having emotions. Writers who write from their heads (outlining like crazy, etc,) are often missing out on the emotion because they are analyzing how to show…
Gabby Inspiration – Dogs are Smarter Than People
Oh. Can you smell it? That is the poem you’re about to write. That is the day you’re about to live. That’s the dog nose you’re about to boop. Inhale.…
Writing Without Labels
I was just doing a visiting residency at a great school in Vermont and a seventh grader said to his teacher, “Okay, Boomer.” Full disclosure: The teacher was thirty-six years…