National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30. More: http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/whatisnano I’m doing it this year! I’m excited because this will be my first fiction novel. Feel free to add me as a writing [...]

It’s done! It’s official. I had the final hearing on my name change this past week. I had to give a little speech on why I wanted to change it, including the significance of each name. I changed my middle name and my last name. It was kind of annoying because the magistrate was all, [...]

I finished the Artist’s Way, now working on the sequel book Walking in This World.

I finally got a gently used computer for my upstairs office/writing/sewing room See more progress on: buy a used desktop for my writing room

Decided to keep the color in my logo, just deepened the colors. updating on the site(s) soonish. mspmedia.net

Today I made a new bottom for my denim kitchen sink skirt.

Thing-a-day is a yearly creative sprint that is held every February and brings together hundreds of creative minds. The idea is simple: sign up is open to anyone and participants commit to create one new thing a day every day for the entire month of February and post it on the collective blog. Participants can [...]

So I started the Artist’s Way again, as I’ve mentioned. Currently on my week 4…

“I learned to recognize the qualities I admire in myself in others.” How I did it: I figure out where all the people like me are hiding…they are hiding in plain sight doing the things I like to do! So I did it by going places that involve the things I am interested in doing. [...]

I can barely stand for people to look at me now. I think if I were famous, even a little bit, it would drive me crazy. There comes a point with fame where you almost have to be rich just to live a normal life…for example today during one of my sons’ birthday party we [...]

I just got into Sudoku this year, thanks to my husband. He was always doing the ones in the newspaper, after awhile it piqued my curiosity. I tend not to like puzzles of this sort because I am a very slow thinker, but I do like numbers and sudoku is actually quite fun. It took [...]

If you devote 8 of those hours to sleep and 8 of those hours to work/money generating, that leaves 8 hours to be creative, right? Wrong. There’s also driving here and there, housework, cooking, washing this and that, spending time with husband and kids, catching up with friends, reading- writing-answering mail, school stuff, exercise, etc. [...]

I tend to dress modest because it cuts down on the amount of unwanted male attention I receive. I’m very curvy in that area so even wearing a loose t-shirt and jeans triggers a lot of hooting and hollering. I have found that loose, long, ankle-length skirts or dresses are very effective in minimizing male [...]

It’s earth day so I wore blue & green. Put my dreadlocks in a sorta bun Thanks for visiting Seed & Flame!

Spring is here!!!! I made it *relief* god this past winter was so hard on me. Next year I am going to Florida for the worst of it. Thank you for visiting Seed & Flame at trula.org!

Today was glorious. Spring is coming!!!!!!!!! Thanks for visiting Seed & Flame attrula.org

Chances are you know what you would really like to do, because chances are you are already doing it right now, for free. For fun, for a hobby, for relaxation, what do you do? What do you make sure you find time to do? For example no matter how pressed for time I was, I [...]

Hey ya’ll, it’s getting about that time to prepare for the Allied Media Conference again! Time is really flying by, I missed the last couple years but I am going for sure this year and would like to do a workshop. Currently they are accepting proposals: http://www.alliedmediaconference.org/propose I was thinking of doing one along the [...]

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So I’ve been thinking about writing for mainstream magazines. By mainstream I don’t just mean the ones sold in the supermarket checkout line, but those with even a modest press run and/or those you rarely see in newsstands. For example utne reader is an indie-type mainstream mag I like. off the top of my head [...]

What follows is a self-involved rant/pity fest about my time and work issues. It culminates in a triumphant vow to stand atop my creative and business life that will become fiscally successful. In the meantime, I do what I gotta do. So I have this job at teenybox, a small software/web-type company. It’s ok, the [...]

I just started a group for Mamaphonic: Pics from members and friends of Mamaphonic.com, a web zine offering monthly content from emerging writers and poets. Designed for and by artists who are also mothers, Mamaphonic provides an active discussion board community with practical advice, resources, and opportunities to interact with writers, visual artists, zinesters, musicians, [...]

Remember my post Jack Frost Is Trying to Kill Me? That was early January. Well I got out and started walking every day, but then lapsed, so much so that at the beginning of February I was in a serious, despondent, winter funk. Again. So much has changed in the span of a few days! [...]

You know the coach bags, right? Very fashionable, very high-priced, very cha-cha. Ok I am so slow I did not know coach bags were an actual brand of purses! I thought ‘coach’ was slang for travel bags, like something you would take on a train. Coach, train, get it? LOL! I would see these bags [...]

Pic: Cheesing in the mirror

Yes, I know I am beautiful. Why do so many people ask me that and/or act like it’s supposed to be news to me?!? I have a mirror and can recognize/appreciate beauty just like the next person. Newsflash America: every black woman who looks like me does not have low self-esteem. ok, thx bai

Remember my having to order Pearberry online due to Bath & Body Works refusal to stock this lotion in the stores? Well my lotion came! To recap: I had to order it because Bath & Body Works refuses to stock it in stores anymore. Only available online! I did get the sale price (the 25th [...]