https://laughingsquid.com/10-minutes-of-weird-deep-sea-aquatic-animals/ Often when I teach my art students about creativity we take some time to look up or read about creatures like the ones in this video. We talk about how much fun God must of had as He thought up the earth and created all of the plants and animals and people. We imagine […]
Except for a short time when I thought I wanted to be a nurse (Not a good choice for an extreme empath!) I have always wanted to be a writer, and I have always wanted to write for children. I have found that I am most comfortable talking with, and writing for, children because they […]
If you look closely at this picture, right there with her little head on my foot, is my pug Lucy when she was a tiny puppy. I remember that day. It was a writing day, the one day that I had set aside each week to work furiously on whatever writing project was before me. My […]
My birthday is this week. Sometimes it comes and goes and I don’t think much about it but this year I have been thinking. I’ve been thinking that I want to make sure that every day counts. So I’ve come up with a plan and I wanted to share it with you. Every Day […]
Monday night I was tired so instead of packing up all my paints to go to my art class I took an old sketch pad, some pencils and tray of watercolors. I opened the sketch pad and found some drawings of little characters that I had made, oh, probably about six years ago. I remember thinking that […]
Yesterday in NYC there was a memorial service for Madeleine L’Engle. She is my writing hero. In honor of her I am going to post here a few quotes from her book, “Walking On Water”, the most incredible book I have ever read on art and writing. From pg. 18, Walking on Water: Obedience is […]
I left this comment on a fellow writer’s blog: I can now say that I have been writing professionally for about 17 years. In spite of the fact that I have had seven books published, numerous articles, have been paid for my writing, and have even won a couple of small awards, it hasn’t, for me, […]
I just blogged three metaphors to describe the lake I live on. But I liked them, so I cut and copied them to my writing file. I want to save them for my next middle grade novel. Did I say “next novel”? In the midst of writing Silent Glades I was like a woman in labor. The waiting, […]
My husband says that I celebrate everything. And he’s right. I do. In fact, that is really what this blog is about, celebrating even the very small joys in life. But today I have something big to celebrate. I finished my middle school novel! I am having my writer son, Caleb, (see http://www.calebmonroe.com ) and my […]
Untitled My brain is tired; I hold the pen. the paper’s clean–the words within. I screw my face and grunt and squirm. The words won’t come—I draw a worm. They say what matters most—start writing, and so with all my heart I’m fighting. Today what matters most is writing! copyright 2005 Robin Prince Monroe […]
It is there waiting for me…the chance of a lifetime….a publisher interested in my middle school novel. The problem??? I have to finish it. It is so close but it just isn’t there…and life keeps throwing me curve balls, heck, they are more like fast balls to the head…and I am ducking so much that […]
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