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January 13, 2021

I Also Write Fiction

I’m actually writing a work of fiction right now that I’m trying to finish up, so I thought I’d share with you a couple of works of fiction I wrote three years ago. It was for a contest I entered…

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January 6, 2021

Potpourri

Happy New Year! 2021 is finally here, and damn if it ain’t start off with a bang. Anyway, I choose today’s title as sort of a tribute to Alex Trebek’s last week on Jeopardy. I wasn’t exactly a Trebek fan….

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December 30, 2020

Hindsight is 2020

It’s my last post of the year, the year 2020 (Fun fact, and I don’t know why I’m putting this in parenthesis but whatever, it took me forever before I understood the meaning of the saying “hindsight is 2020.” Like…

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December 26, 2020

How I Write: Perhaps the One Benefit of Jealousy

Ever Look at a piece of writing and think, “how’d they do that?” Well, in this series, I’m taking you behind the screens, past the paper and pen and directly into my writing process, from concept to final product. This…

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December 23, 2020

Running Late…

I totally forgot about posting today. Okay, not true. I’ve actually been thinking about what I’m going to write today a lot; I just haven’t written it yet. I totally lost track of time. For the past few weeks I’ve…

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December 17, 2020

Perhaps the One Benefit of Jealousy

First watch, start at 16:46, then let’s talk… I recently had an experience that brought that scene to mind. It aired back in 2003. It was season 3, episode 18 of Girlfriends, they titled it “Runaway Bridesmaid.” Overall, I’m a…

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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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