A Writer's Work in Progress

Well, life has some interesting twists and turns. I originally started this blog as a writer, and am now finding myself drawn ever deeper into the world of editing. Don’t get me wrong, I still love to write, and plan on co-publishing an anthology of short stories with a dear friend of mine, K.L. Pre...

I think it’s high time to update my Blog… I’ve been writing for a while now, just not on my blog.  Primarily short stories and flash fiction, all published at www.whispersofthemuse.org.  Sometimes my ideas come from dreams, sometimes I get bits and pieces of them while I’m falling asleep.  I love to...

I love being out in my garden late at night. When the whole world’s asleep, and I appear to be the only person who is awake and alert. I love the lack of noise, or rather the lack of human-generated noise. There are plenty of other sounds: the cool whisper of the wind stirring through [...]

I love being out in my garden late at night. When the whole world’s asleep, and I appear to be the only person who is awake and alert. I love the lack of noise, or rather the lack of human-generated noise. There are plenty of other sounds: the cool whisper of the wind stirring through [...]

Well, I haven’t written on my blog in a while.  Par for the course.  I get excited about something new, usually a whole bunch of somethings, and throw myself into all 12 of them simultaneously and with great fervor.  Then as usually happens, I overdo, then I get sick.  I end up being sick for [...]

I started the Artist’s Way yesterday.  I read the dozen or so pages at the beginning of the workbook that explain about “morning pages” and “artist’s dates.”  Then I got up early and wrote my morning pages.  I can tell you that I’m pretty excited about taking myself on an artist date.  I may g...

Well here I am again, shamefacedly staring at my computer screen.  I keep hearing there’s no such thing as writer’s block, so what exactly the hell is wrong with me?  Performance anxiety?  Extreme self-doubt?  Crippling esteem issues?  Check.  But one more time, I sit, willing to pour my heart out o...

I’m new at this blogging thing.  Now I know how my dad felt when the personal computer came along.  “Newfangled things, who needs ‘em.”  I don’t think he’s ever sent an email in his life.  He uses his PC like a fancy typewriter, carefully tapping out letters and then sending them to print.  He’s not...

So you might be wondering what happened next.  Simple, really.  I started writing.  And writing.  And I liked what I was writing.  And others liked what I was writing.  And I was having fun doing it. Then I got one of those moments of clarity when I realized that I was good at this.  Finally, [...]

My name is Monique Happy and I love to write. I recently rediscovered my love for writing when I sorta accidentally signed up for a Creative Writing class at the local community college.  I was there to sign up for general education classes and a handfull of law classes to obtain my AA degree and [....