When I was a kid, I loved stickers. I think most kids probably did, so that wasn’t unusual. But while I had an impressive sticker collection, I never actually used them. One time, my aunt gave me an envelope full of stickers she’d saved. They were some of the cutest… Read the rest...
Author: Beth
Writer, artist, blogger, doll collector, and owner of Ithilear.com.
During 2021, my husband indulged in what me and my friends have been referring to as The Tableting, Part 3. Now and then, he goes through phases of wanting a new art tablet and ends up trying… uh, a lot of different options before he finally settles on one. This… Read the rest...
At the beginning of December, I shared a post about clearing my schedule to write. I really only wrote for a week and a half before I had to back up and make changes to my schedule to best suit the things currently on my plate.
The good news is… Read the rest...
Back in 2015, as I was trying to get back into writing after a few years without, my friend Megan suggested I try some writing prompts. I did, for a while, and it was fun. I just couldn’t keep up with a story every week, and sometimes even one a… Read the rest...
Or, more likely, “wishful thinking for 2022.”
I’m pretty bad about biting off more than I can chew, and by the time this goes up, I’ll be about a week into my new writing schedule and hopefully starting to get a handle on what things will be like. I’ll write… Read the rest...
When I was a child, my mom took a liking to teapots and teacups. One teacup in particular was special; it was what started her collection and it was the cup I recognized most out of all her tea things: a cup and saucer with delicate Japanese maple leaves. She… Read the rest...
Needless to say, with an ending word count like that, I didn’t finish my plans for NaNoWriMo. There were just too many surprises—and heartbreaks—in November for me to sit and write.
But I still got a little more than one fifth of the way to a full NaNo and almost… Read the rest...