Quiet Rebel Writer

Hello everyone, and welcome to the week! I’m back from my weeklong sojourn to I-O-WA, the state where I was born and raised. My entire family lives there, so it’s quite a trip with lots of folks to see. But the main focus of this trip was my new nephew, born to my younger brother […]

Welcome to the week, everyone! The sun is shining here in Chicago, and I can clearly see the skyline from my office window. No fog, no clouds, no sleet/snow/mist/rain/hail/apocalyptic weather. Progress!
Let’s start the week off with a poem excerpt. As I’ve said before, I’m not a huge poetry fan. I like me my metaphors, […]

Have some links from the past week. On me. You deserve it.
Writing:

Just Write Blog Carnival (April 11, 2008 Edition)

Blogging:

6 Ways That Bloggers are Like Rappers
The Top 5 Ways to Generate Traffic With Less Work
March Madness of the Writing Blogs (continuing series)
May 1st RSS Awareness Day: Get Involved

Freelancing/Working From Home:

Dealing With Problem […]

Hello world! A quick and dirty post for all you avid QRW readers today, as momma has some looming deadlines for the end of the day. Gots to pay those bills.
Mondays are our creative kick in the arse. And this Monday is special - they announced the official lineup for Lolla 08 today. Since […]

Welcome to the week, gentle readers! Sure, it’s rainy, foggy, and otherwise crappy here in Chicago. But I’m feeling optimistic anyway. It’s almost April and officially spring, even if Chicago spring doesn’t kick in until June. I’m in a new office that is just rad. I let myself sleep in this morning because, well, I […]

Welcome back, everyone! Thank you for your patience during my two-day exile. Being without consistent interweb action? Horribly painful. Being hooked up again, with full connectivity to the whole wide world, and all you lovely blog readers? Delightful.
During this brief break, J and I moved from our apartment of six years into a new […]

Welcome to the week, and Happy St. Patrick’s Day! For all you Chicagoans, you know this past weekend was a people watcher paradise, with drunk people garbed in green falling on sidewalks, packing bars, and vomiting in restaurants. Ah, what a good time. My own weekend was spent around people giddy not from alcohol but […]

I like knowing what to expect. Call me a creature of habit, but I like knowing that almost every Wednesday night I have date night with J, that Friday nights we’re probably going to order sushi, that Saturday afternoons we hit LaBamba for a burrito lunch and then go book shopping. Patterns and routines can […]

I can’t say that I like a lot of poetry. I try to. I really do. But when I think of poetry I think of my massive anthology of Romantic Poets from a lit class in college. In the midst of reading those dense, 20-page epic poems by Blake or Shelley my eyes would cross, […]

Welcome to the week, everyone! Let’s push Monday doldrums to the side with our Monday date. If you’ll remember, this date is to give ourselves a little creative kick. Last week, I wrote:
I hate the term writer’s block, because I don’t think this phenomena is limited to writers. No matter your field, there’s the […]