Writing Lessons & Advice: Skits and Scripts
As a kid, I dabbled in writing Scooby-Doo fanfiction--before fanfiction blew up in popularity, might I add. As a teenager, I dabbled in writing skits that were performed by my church’s puppet team to an audience in the children’s program. Like the Scooby-Doo stories though, those skits may be lost to time as well, but the experience was still pretty awesome! Skits, a synonym of sketches, are typically just small-scale or abbreviated acting projects. The most defining charact
Writing Lessons & Advice: Postcards and World Postcard Day
In October 2025, I took a cross-country road trip with my husband. A few days in, we parked overnight at a truck stop that had some cool postcards. I grabbed a handful to share as souvenirs for some kids back home and made a point from then on to check out any postcard inventory at most other stops we made. Little did I know that our road trip started just a few days after a recently implemented holiday that celebrates the souvenir of choice. If unfamiliar, postcards are spe
