Bring On Lemons

Carmen Casavant, Today's Guest Blogger Today's Guest Blogger is my daughter, Carmen Casavant. She knew that her picture was featured in my recent blog for WOW! Women on Writing , and I read her the blog. Her response was "so that's why you always ask me about my dreams" and we immediately started talking about our journals. Her journal is a little different than mine, because she is in kindergarten and is just learning how to write. Her journal contains lots of words, a few sentences, and lots and lots of pictures. This is how she journals (for now).  I told her that we should feature some of her pictures and stories on my blog, and she thought that would be a great idea. So here, is what she came up with from last night's dream. Enjoy! xoxo ~Crystal Saving the Princess There was a big green dragon. Dragons aren't real, but sometimes I dream about them. The dragon took the princess. My mom was the princess. I had a big long sword and I ...

I am taking part in a 27 Day Journaling Challenge - so for the next 27 days, you will be able to peruse my thoughts. If you aren't familiar with journaling, I feel like I should explain before just tossing up my posts. Here goes: Journaling is good for self-discover, self-healing, and I've always likened it to going to the gym. Journaling is an exercise for your brain and your creativity (like working out is exercise for your body and muscles). It is also a nice way to get out of a slump of 'writer's block'. In this particular course, each day begins with a 'lesson' of sorts including music, quotes, poetry, an online discussion forum, and then a 'starter'. Day one's starter is "I Am Aware of...." And then the instructions are to write write write until you feel its right for you to stop. Now that you've got the explanation - the next 27 posts may make more sense. Hopefully you'll enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy wri...

Some days it's easy to blog and other days it's hard to come up with a topic that anyone might be interested in. If you are interested in blogging or more and are struggling with subject matter, a writing prompt may help. I've had quite a bit of luck with online writing prompts from this website:  http://creativewritingprompts.com/# For example, today I clicked on a random number, and here's my prompt:   "Choose one of your physical features and write about how you can change or disguise that feature" I write every day, and this might be something that I write and don't publish, or something I publish on my private blog (more like a diary or journal that only I have access to). Depending on the prompt, how personal the story gets, etc...you can decide what to do with the story/blog or where to put it...but just getting started with a prompt or an idea gets those creative juices flowing. Now...I get to write about my nose. Believe it or not, if...