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  • And the wheel turns

    2020 went out like it spent much of the year: strolling empty streets, wondering where everyone went and why it wasn’t invited to the party that wasn’t even going on.… Read more

  • The shortest day

    God, haven’t the days been dark? Metaphorically and literally, I mean. Today is winter solstice, the shortest, and darkest day of the year. Sunset here in the UK was at… Read more

  • 2020 Thanks

    Thanksgiving 2020. It’s surreal in many ways. It feels like much was taken away this year; for some of us, the ultimate loss of people we cared about. For others,… Read more

  • Juxtaposition

    I love teaching. There’s something magical about helping writers create their stories, about helping them take their craft to new levels. I treasure the moments when they say something clicked… Read more

  • Keep growing

    How hard do you work at making your writing better? Like, have you gotten to the point where you think it’s good enough? Do you churn things out and figure… Read more

  • All Access?

    Artists of every kind have always been in the public domain, of sorts. If you were a painter in the 1800s the rich people wanted you at their parties as… Read more

  • Connect with Abandon

    Look for the good. I mean it. I had a wickedly scary time last week. My health after Covid seems to be all over the place, much like it is… Read more

  • Dream a little dream

    I keep having really vivid dreams. My teeth falling out is a recurring one. And being chased or scared is actually making me cry out/whimper in my sleep, until my… Read more

  • Traveling in Silence

    (I just deleted a whole bunch of bleak stuff so I can get to the heart of things. Yay!) We decided to travel. For two people who do it often… Read more

  • Call To Me by Helena Harte — Les Rêveur

    Sometimes the ideal book falls into your lap at the perfect time and that’s what happened with Call To Me. This book totally gave me the feels!! What was the… Read more

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I’m Vic. I’m an editor, a writer, a coffee enthusiast, a book coach, a cheerleader, a wife, a navel gazer and someone who loves to share writing stuff and random thoughts that occur to me at more random moments.