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February 17, 2021

On Studying Other People’s Writing

A few weeks ago someone popped up in my Twitter timeline asking whether or not they should buy a book about how to write called “On Writing” by Stephen King. As you could imagine the question was met by tons…

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February 10, 2021

Learning How to Bounce Back After Failure

So you failed, now what? After my post, a few weeks ago, about failing quickly, I realized that while a post like that can be motivational, it also has the potential to leave you hanging. As if failure is singular….

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February 3, 2021

Why It’s So Difficult to Trust Yourself

No seriously, why is it so difficult to trust yourself? Not asking for a friend. Asking for myself. So the other day I was on Twitter, and this girl popped up on my timeline (she was a full-grown adult, I…

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January 28, 2021

Getting Out the House: My $20 San Diego Day Trip?

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As writer, I spend a lot of time indoors looking a homely hot mess – a status that has only been exasperated by this pandemic. But ya girl can only take so much of that before the inertia becomes suffocating….

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January 27, 2021

I’ma Be Late Though

Sorry I’m running late, but I didn’t forgot about you. New post coming soon…like Thursday 1.28.2021 soon.

January 20, 2021

You’re Gonna Fail, So Do it Quickly

I have not failed, not once.  I’ve discovered ten thousand ways that don’t work.* — Thomas Edison The above quote is often attributed to Thomas Edison regarding the advancements he was making with the lightbulb. I put an asterisk by…

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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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