Verbose. Loquacious. Garrulous. Voluble. Effusive. I’m the kind of person who will keep you up and talk to you until 4 in the morning. I’m the kind of person who has hour-and-a-half phone conversations. I’m the kind of person that will corner you at work to discuss educational theory for an entire free period. So… Continue reading Freewrite Friday: Write Like a Skeleton
Dearest Lit & Love Subscribers, Wow! We can’t believe that we have over a hundred people following our humble little blog. We just wanted to write a quick note to thank you so much for following our site. Whether you found us back in April when we started or are new to us, we couldn’t… Continue reading 100+ Subscribers! Thank Yous & Some News 🙂
I am an autumn person and October is my country. I think only autumn thoughts, thoughts hidden away for the rest of the year only to come out when the world is turning away from the light and towards the dark. I am sustained on the chill in the air, the light of harvest moon,… Continue reading Freewrite Friday: The October Country
When I was younger, I took point of view for granted. I could identify if something was 3rd person omniscient or 1st person, and I thought I was done. I left it at the identification, patted myself on the back, and never dove deeper. It wasn’t until I began writing some fiction myself that I… Continue reading How to Become a Writer: Some Perspective
Who knew a word could have so many ys? Let alone a z! Here at Lit & Love, we’re stockpiling words in an effort to celebrate and expand our vocabulary. Every Wednesday we post a word we love: words we discover in our readings, words we stumble across in our conversations, or sometimes words that we just like the sound… Continue reading Word Nerd Wednesday: Syzygy
What do we all hunger for? What do we all thirst for? Is it justice? Peace? Redemption? Truth? Or do we simply need a cup of coffee or a sandwich to satisfy us? This week we’ve talked about some great pairings between books and tea as well as how to snack by genre. So, for our Freewrite… Continue reading Freewrite Friday: Hunger and Thirst
Happy Friday, writers! This week, I’ve been going through my journals trying to pick up some of the pieces of old writing. I have random, (surely) excellent lines scribbled all over some of its pages, and I wanted to pick one for today’s freewrite. There is such value in scribbling down the odd perfect line as it… Continue reading Freewrite Friday: Pieces/Parts
“The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.” ―Ray Bradbury Taking a creative writing class last summer was one of the best things I ever did for my writing life. In my undergrad I took a couple of creative writing classes… Continue reading Cobblestone, Parchment, Mom: Creating a Personal Universe Deck
So, we’re pretty new to this whole blogging thing, but we are totally in love with these fun community awards. Thank you so much, Tash @ The Bookie Monsters for nominating us for The Book Fangirling Award. This award was originally created by Hannah @ Book Fangirling! Award Rules Create a post to accept your… Continue reading The Book Fangirling Award
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.” -Albert Camus Going out into the world and finding inspiration is one of the best ways to jumpstart your writing. In order to capture life and its struggles, you must live it first. However, life so often gets in the… Continue reading Create Your Own At-Home Writing Retreat
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