Life offers many opportunities to tell our stories. According to the Master Class, there are five essential elements to writing a good story. Once you have mastered these key elements you will be truly on your journey to forming stories that inform, enrich and entertain. The key elements of writing…

Writers write for varying reasons, but writers love words. — As writers, we write the things that give us pleasure or cause us great concern. Writers often enjoy sharing ideas, information, and scripted entertainment. Writers do want to be heard and understood. We want to shock and bemuse. Oftentimes we write because we are impregnated with words that must come…

I wonder if wildflowers grow in Eden. — Are any wildflowers in Eden? Or any twisted trees? Well, I’ll just walk there, enter and look around to see! Though angels guard the entrance with their flaming swords. Maybe they will let me enter. I will never be annoyed. If they allow me entry, I promise I will never…

“Soothing romantic music encompassed my soul … ” I savored in my approval of the sensualness I was experiencing, loving the feeling. Knowing that tonight I could afford to feel this good. I pulled back the drapes of the full-length window to expose the cityscape’s colorful array of distant lights…

No, no more broken hearts. — The woman stood mean-mugging me before a man called from one door down from our room. She turned to look in the direction of the man’s voice. Realizing she was at the wrong door, her face quickly softened, as an embarrassed grin slowly replaced the scowled frown. She put both…

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” ~Zora Neale Hurston “What?” “Drink all that water,” he stated matter-of-factly. “You have been drinking heavily and the water will nauseate you,” he said. “What is my alternative?” Should I throw it up?” I was being silly. He chuckled and…

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.” ~ Zora Neale Hurston A TASTE FOR LIFE April 2023: Monthly Theme — Hearts & Locks April 2023: Monthly Theme — Hearts & Locks The words “heart” and “lock” have powerful symbolic meanings connected to them, either separately or together.medium.com ~ Pages from a journal written in 2018 The more he became aroused the more I panicked. “Oh, shit, how am I gonna stop…

A king chooses his queen — After completing an amphitheater, built for his people, in one of the largest cities in his country, the resourceful king was honored with a private party, celebrating his generosity, held in one of my father’s seaside villas. Upon our first encounter, I noticed the illuminating flecks of light flash in…

April dares to display her beauty demured by the wistful showers of spring. April opens the spring season hopelessly and with umbrellas A month of sunshine and rain a trending to a certain bellwether Charming her submissive approach from eventide to daybreak Hailing rain stops suddenly as southern winds harshly…