“Writing happens when you stay consistent and keep encouraging yourself that it’s okay to put words on the page.” - Rebecca Camarena, author You’ve started your book and you’ve written a few pages. You’re on a roll and when you stop for the day you promise to write daily. But the next thing you know you haven’t written in days. When you start writing each time you type a sentence, your inner editor cringes. You’re terrified you’re going to write something dreadful, so you don’t write anything. You stare at the blank page. You may have even started to question whether you should be writing a book at all. In your mind you wrote something great that first day and you consider yourself a great writer. Writers have this image of the literary greats sitting at their typewriters banging out their stories. You think they sit down and keep writing from the first page to the last. Since you want to emulate them you feel that you have to be perfect each time you write. If...
This day, English Language Day comes to us from across the pond, England that is. But, I'm willing to celebrate anything that deals with words because I'm a proud word nerd. It's the celebration of when Parliament was opened for the first time by a speech in English on October 13, 1362 instead of the customary French language. In the same Parliament, a Statute of Pleading was approved that allowed members in debate to use the English language. This made English the official language of law and law-making. Here's how to celebrate this day; Read a book by your favorite author. Even better still, read a book by your favorite British author. I have many of those book by British authors on my bookshelf because in getting my English Literature Degree the greater number of English classes were British Literature. I've read Moll Flanders by Daniel Defoe, Beowulf, Tristram Shandy, Charles Dickens classics, George Eliot, Elizabeth Gaskell, Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hard...