Writing – Page 2 – Jan Sikes

January 13, 2025March 3, 2026

Monday Meanderings

Happy Monday, friends. I hope everyone is well and feeling positive about a new week. We had our first snow of the year and, no this photo is not from the snow, but from Canva. It's rare for Texas to get snow this early in January. However, it was short lived - only a couple …

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February 17, 2024

Bear with me

I had every intention of making a Friday post yesterday, but instead, I spent the day working with a WordPress expert to get my blog imported into my website. I know there are still some wrinkles to iron out, but we are getting there. Image by OpenClipart-Vectors from Pixabay I imported everything into the website, …

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April 21, 2023

Friday Free-For-All #Followup #RONEAward #celebrating #reading #podcast

Happy Friday! I have had a busy but productive week and managed to get in a bit of celebrating. (If you didn't see my Monday tarot reading, take a look here.) I'm happy to say the reading was spot-on for me this week. First off, an update on the health scare I had last week. …

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June 18, 2021

I’m curious – How do you do it?

Since school is out and I have my grandchildren more hours per day, I am finding myself in a constant state of behindness (Yes, I know that's not a real word, but it fits.) I'm the little boy in the picture below, struggling to keep up, carrying my balloon. 🙂 Photo courtesy Lucdecleir via Pixabay …

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January 29, 2021

Food and Drink in #Writing #WritingCommunity

The concept of "show don't tell" is drilled into us from the first day we begin learning the craft of writing. And, as we grow and improve our storytelling abilities, it becomes an integral part of the process. But there are many ways to "show" character traits, beliefs, desires and ideals. As strange as it …

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December 1, 2019March 3, 2026

What worked? What didn’t?

NaNoWriMo 2019 ended yesterday. Was it a success? I suppose, like most things in life, it's the perspective with which you look at it, as to the answer to the question. The original goal for NaNoWriMo was to write 50,000 words in the month of November. After the second weekend, I realized I was not …

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November 10, 2019

My progress – or lack thereof #NaNoWriMo

So, I committed to participate in #NaNoWriMo. Then life happened in a really big way. And my word count progress is pitiful. But, I am not giving up. Any word count is good, right? So here's a snippet from my WIP, "JAGGED FEATHERS": Nakina understood more about him than he knew. He was keeping something …

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June 2, 2019March 3, 2026

How often do you do this?

Everyone I know responds enthusiastically at the mention of getting a massage, myself included. There is nothing more relaxing than having all the knots and kinks rubbed out of your neck and back. But, did you know that getting regular massages increases productivity and creativity? Whether you are writing a novel, working on a challenging …

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March 31, 2019

What comes first?

April kicks off two separate short story writing competitions for me. So, I started going through my folder of ideas and characters and it struck me the varied ways stories come. It made me wonder. Which comes first for you, as an author? The story idea? Or the Characters? For me, it has come both …

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