I have stopped blogging for now. Instead, I’ve created a website for Literary Reviews for LGBTQ women and nonbinary people. Several other writers are joining me in reviewing literary works. I’ve started the ball rolling by writing a few short reviews. Here is the link: Look for me there, or on Facebook. I #amwriting and […]
What motivates you when life gets in the way of your best-laid plans? Starting last Wednesday morning, all my plans have been blown away as if a tornado came through and did its job. I’m fine. Nothing really happened, but I feel like I’ve been knocked sideways and don’t know how to right myself. Today […]
Last Friday night was the 70th Anniversary Showcase of The Scripteasers organization, of which I am a member. My play was one of the seven short plays to be showcased at this event. I was honored to be a part of what turned out to be an exciting evening. The plays were varied in content, […]
No, I’m not serious. April is the cruelest month is a line from T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. In fact, I love April. Especially in Missouri where I was born and grew up and have spent the past two weeks. Here in mid-Missouri, the redbud trees are blooming, the trees are leafing out in […]
Originally posted on Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies:
Panel Participants: Artress Bethany White, Sharon Harrigan, Bridgett Davis, Lori Horvitz Description: Writers of nonfiction struggle with the ethics of transparency in their work, particularly when discussing family. From fratricide to confronting parental abandonment or making a living from illegal professions, writers must often face their own demons and…
Yesterday morning, Easter Fool’s Day, I awoke to the news that my one-act play did not make the final cut for Scripps Ranch Theatre’s Out on a Limb program. They choose eight people’s ideas (I was one of the eight) in January, and the eight have until the end of February to complete a rough […]
Last night the electric company turned off the electricity to our mobile home park for maintenance. We were given a few days warning, and asked to unplug all electronics and do without power for seven hours from 10 pm to 5 am. How long has it been since I’ve spent a night in the actual […]
Are you one of the people who “hope” for 100 rejections this year and are therefore submitting work to the places you sincerely hope to be published in? Are you a person who has a deadline to finish your novel or memoir, or poetry collection, or play? Are you a reader waiting [im]patiently for your […]
I am proud to have been a guest host on Trish Hopkinson’s blog this week. If you missed it there, please enjoy it here… sdh Trish Hopkinson Every once in a great while a poet comes along who captures a huge following and the rest of us feel all the feels. (Jealously, envy, rage at […]
Before you go down the road of outrage about political correctness or censorship, please consider this: Because we all watch television, or participate in social media, or binge watch Netflix, or go to movies, or plays, or dinner with friends, we have a shorthand for what we see, read, or hear. If someone says the […]
Red Crested Author Sandra de Helen 