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January 30, 2023

I’m a Writer, Not a Reader, But I’m Tryna Be Both

I want to read more. One of my goals this year is to read at least one book a month. That book for January was supposed to be Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison. But look at January, it just…

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January 27, 2023

This Post is Late ‘Cause I Was Too Tired to Write: A Fitness Post

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, writing can be exhausting, and that is because thinking can be exhausting. People tend to think ( actually I don’t know what people tend to think, but this is what I…

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January 22, 2023

The Challenges of Trusting Myself

Today I was supposed to write about editing my short story, but honestly, I haven’t looked at it since the last time I wrote about it here. It’s been a busy work week for me. It’s been a busy time…

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January 18, 2023

To Buy or Not to Buy a New Car

I was at my job’s Thanksgiving party, at a table with other people from my department, when the topic of discussion turned to cars. Sitting near me was my boss’s boss, the director of our department. She mentioned how she…

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January 15, 2023

Church Bells Ringing in the Distance

I want to start going to church regularly. I haven’t done that since my early 20s, and even then I would miss weeks at a time before I showed my face again. My preference is to go to a black…

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January 12, 2023

2023 Goals

I have a love hate relationship with people’s highlight reels on social media. For the most part, it’s more love than hate. I actually get inspired by them. They show me things I would have never known like places I’d…

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Hello! Welcome to Shirscribe! I know my face doesn't look so welcoming in this photo, it's just that I did those braids myself and I actually like this pic. But I am really happy you're here, so come on in, have a look around, read a post or 50, comment if you'd like and come back soon!

Introducing My Writing Practice!

You know, writing rarely comes easy for me. Most of the time I mull over it forever, then edit it and edit it,  only for it to still be filled with errors, or just not be quite right.

Part of the problem is I’m reaching for that old unattainable perfection. The other part is I need to read and write more.

So this is me, writing more.

In this series, I’m giving myself two hours to write about a topic of my choice nonstop, and 30 minutes to edit it before I post it here, just as it is.  The great sentences and the incoherent ones with spelling and grammatical errors too.  I’m just going to write and see what it will be.

I’ll be posting these writing practices once a week. I’m not sure which day, and maybe no particular day, just one time a week, with no end date as of now.

I can be so insecure about my writing, so I think this will be helpful.

Here’s to writing and getting better at it!

Thanks for reading!

7.27.2026

Mood…

There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy place where the Most High dwells. — Psalm 46:4

Lord, let me be that river.

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