Have the golden years arrived yet? I’m facing, perhaps prematurely, my retirement in two weeks and have a lot of mixed feelings about it. This came about partly because at 62 years of age I was unwilling to spend two hours a day driving on country roads with little or no cell-phone reception to get to the school I had been assigned to when my school was closed permanently. But I’ve been wishing I could retire to become a full-time writer
I’ve made up my mind to become a serious writer and am spending a lot more time at my computer with that in mind but writer’s block is very real. I can sit here and think and think until I sink into sleep… again. I’ve gone to bed very late several nights in a row because I fell asleep at the computer trying so very hard to accomplish some writing. I was struggling with this again last Thursday evening when I
I have received notice that I have been selected as an alternate to receive one of ten scholarships to the Blue Ridge Mountain Christian Writers Conference on May 18-22. That doesn’t mean that I will definitely get to go, but I will get to go if one of the ten has to cancel their plans to attend. It is exciting to think of the possibility of attending. Now it’s time to pray and wait for the word.
When I began blogging two and a half months ago I had a goal to promote myself as a writer. My goal has not changed. But things haven’t worked out the way I first thought they might. “QueenBJan’s Weblog” was my starting place. I made a few comments about this and that and it was fun. I also went to work posting a few of my favorite writing pieces from the past. I wrote a little about the birds at our
I have been given by Pen of Passion the following award.In my opinion, a good piece of writing has 1) A topic that catches my attention 2) Content that will keep my attention 3) Humor, writing to lift me up, or information to teach me something ________________________ I would like to pass this award to these five worthy bloggers: happywonderer, plummershollow, fatfinch, rjhenz,