Three movies, one weekend and one exhausted writer. Strangely, it was the exhaustion which enabled the movie watching along with Amazon Prime. Movie 1: Late Night staring Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling and John Lithgow. This is the movie that started the spree. Emmy Thompson is on fire as the failing talk show, Katherine Newbury. …
I ran out of spoons on Monday when forces combined to make my normal day, mentally three times longer than usual. There were some physical challenges as well. All of which resulted in this writer feeling like she had been run over by a semi. A semi that backed up and did it again and …
When there is sun, I rise with the dawn. Winking at it as tendrils of light as they weave their way into my room. Mornings are a time of silent reflection. No, that's not right. Mornings are peaceful. They are quiet and time seems slower. I can coax my brain into focusing which is why …
The most dangerous and powerful stories are the ones that we tell ourselves about ourselves. Our self-talk can lift us up or take us down. We sometimes tell ourselves stories about how others perceive us. We tell ourselves that we know what they are saying about us. And for the most part we are wrong. …
Tomorrow, I will go back to the day job for the first time in sixty-four days. Summer is over for me in less than twelve hours. Nearly half that time traveling and writing; it has been wonderful. Next Spring if the editing gods are kind I will have two new pieces ready for publication. But, my …
Two weeks in France and I was writing everyday. I am twenty pages and a few plot wholes away from a finished draft of The Devil's Due. I wrote well when I was away from my writing desk.
This morning, I woke up in a strange room in a city that neighbors the one I grew up in. As my traveling companion slept fitfully in his bed, I moved through the room making coffee, showering, reading and doing my morning exercises. The nervousness and tears that had marked my first day of travel …
Some quick thoughts on writing and getting where you want to be in life.
How does one get unstuck in life? How does one deal with being so lost that they have finally gotten tired of throwing their hands up in the air? Of starting all over once more. Of staring at the end and knowing how much work it is going to take to make it a beginning. …
So after weeks of sending out resumes and expecting it to take weeks, I finally got a response from two principals in my district. Ten years at the same school. Ten years knowing the boundaries and pushing them. It is time to push new boundaries and serve new students. Two interviews, two chances. Two opportunities …
Lucinda Rose 