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A Night of Building a Manuscript & Reading Poetry

by McKenzie | Sep 3, 2019 | Blog, Craft (Writing Tips), Reading

Happy Tuesday night, all! I hope you had a wonderful weekend—and a relaxing Labor Day. My Labor Day weekend revolved (mostly) around lovely “guilty pleasures,” ranging from binge-watching Season 3 of The Good Place, starting my latest re-read of...

Happy New Year! What’s the Word for 2019?

by McKenzie | Jan 2, 2019 | Blog, Craft (Writing Tips)

Champagne and Sparkling White Grape Juice left on the table, blankets and pillows cluttered across the floor, the light from the TV filling the dimmed room as the ball dropped, and then again, only the light from the Christmas tree—it was New Year’s Eve,...

Reading Stephen King & Writing Horror Shovels

by McKenzie | Jul 6, 2018 | Blog, Craft (Writing Tips), Reading

  Hi friends! Happy Thursday. I hope you had a really wonderful holiday mid-week and are finding yourselves back in the full swing of things. The last few days, since celebrating my birthday, my anniversary, and the 4th of July, I’ve been doing a lot of...

“All My Things Are Empty Now” & The Prompt That Wrote It

by McKenzie | Dec 4, 2017 | Blog, Craft (Writing Tips), My Poems

  Hello, everyone! I hope you had a nice weekend and are enjoying your Monday. Starting this week, I’m going to do something a little different. I’m back to writing every day, with a mixture of free-writing and prompt-driven writing. I’m going...

big poem, small poem / new poem sure / longer poem, brighter poem / birds birds birds

by McKenzie | Jan 22, 2016 | Blog, Craft (Writing Tips), My Poems

  Hello all! It’s been a while again, I know. I’ve been missing writing in the worse way but otherwise wrapped up in my new job, writing a new bio: McKenzie lives and writes in South Bend, where she works at Indiana University, etc. It’s been a...

Hey!! A New Feature is Coming to My Blog Very, Very Soon!!

by McKenzie | Jul 23, 2015 | Blog, Craft (Writing Tips)

  Yesterday evening, I wrote a sort of long-time-no-see post, followed by a post that very well may have opened a huge door for me. I shared how a poem from my earlier writing life had hugely intersected with a specific incident from my day yesterday, and I came...
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