Month: November 2017

Writer’s Block? Try a Haunted House.

We did the craziest thing last week.  We took the kids to Disney.  We had a few days off from work and instead of kicking back, doing a few projects around the house, hosting the fam for Thanksgiving, meeting my #NaNoWriMo goals… we piled three kids, a Bob stroller (or, “stroder”, as one of the

Once Upon a Time and Llamas

  There was an era in my life when I had time for hobbies.  I didn’t really know it, because have I always felt like I was busy, but once upon a time I did have minutes to spare for something that wasn’t (per my current metric) necessary to sustain life. As many of us

Plotters vs Pantsers

  It’s the age-old question… are you a Plotter or a Pantser?  Well, you may say, that’s quite a personal question.  It really goes to the heart of how we think, how we work, and what makes us click. Everything about me screams Pantser.  Once, for work, I had to take the Myer’s Briggs personality

The Story of Scribble & Spark Bookworks As I have watched my free time dwindle to almost non-existent over the past ten years, I have come to understand my own priorities much more clearly.   As I look back, there are few vestiges of my previous existence (that is, pre-spouse and pre-kids) that I have