Katharine's Writer's Block

It seems like every day can be a holiday and every month is one for some kind of recognition, remembrance, or awareness. Many are established by various organizations or special interests, so keeping up can be hard if you’re not affiliated or in-the-know in some way.  Similar organizations and interests of literary culture have managed to get their values recognized with their own various holidays and months. This Lessons & Advice post gives a rundown on several special times

Happy New Year! At the start or end of a year, we often like to take stock of our goals, accomplishments, or other accruements during our...

Have you ever been told to watch your tone during a conversation? A combination of your voice, emotions, and attitude may have gotten...

I recently learned the old show, Mythbusters , is one of my husband’s favorites. He was home more often over the summer for reasons I’ll keep private and discovered it's available on Amazon Prime. So streaming his old favorite show was one of the ways he liked to pass time and how we’d spend some nights together. For those unfamiliar, Mythbusters was a science-oriented program that ran on the Discovery Channel from 2003 to 2016. In each episode, hosts Adam Savage, Jamie Hynem

I got some wonderful kitchen gifts for my bridal shower! Among them were a fully-stocked, sixteen-jar spice rack and a Ninja Foodi grill....

How does a prepared food dish end up less enjoyable than it could be, if not ruined altogether? Too much flavor could have been used or...

NANOWRIMO 2024 created waves last month by attempting to voice a neutral stance on the use of writing with artificial intelligence (AI).  NaNoWriMo neither explicitly supports nor condemns any approach to writing, including the use of tools that leverage AI. We recognize that harm has been done to the writing and creative communities at the hands of bad actors in the generative AI space, and that the ethical questions and risks posed by some aspects of this technology are rea

The act of handwriting-- cursive  or otherwise--seems like a dying art that’s fallen to the omnipresence of computer technology. Which is a shame considering how penscript is still prevalent and offers good benefits. However, keyboarding, touch typing, or simply typing, is nothing more than the act and skill of writing with a computer and is not without its own merits: Typing can be efficient.  Pushing buttons that correlate with letters or characters takes less time than scr

Voice in writing is like fashion sense! A common positive critique I’ve gotten on my Reedsy stories  is having a strong voice, so I...

Story Star Life Simulator icon I’m a fan of simulation games. The sandbox, open-world, world-building, customizable, role-playing, and/or...