What a clever and creative response to your prompt. Any young person who may be in a similar boat can be given the courage to speak up & be heard by an adult. You've come through this so well, Pamela. No, there's no perfection. But it's good to know that you love what you have and, thereby, have given yourself a sense of Heaven.

Learning how other writers manage their writing life intrigues and motivates me. Serious writers put seat to chair and get to work. When I don't feel like centering, it's decision time - for me. Am I going to ignore a passion that demands expression and implode? Or, am I going to offer an opening that looks like one thing and often thrills the heck out of me by being something I could never dream up with my left-brain mind?

I love you for this! Exquisite.

Notice the bouquets of gratitude at your feet. They are from me!

That's exactly where I landed...I needed a Time Out. Now I don't wait until I feel negative thoughts bubbling up. I take a time-out more often, allow myself to skip over other blog comments, land on some more sporadically and feel much more refreshed for writing or preparing a post.

Great subject!

Speaking of Madeleine L'Engle, she taught me my mantra: Write clean as bone, clear as glass and smooth as stone. Ms. L'Engle presented a door to writing prose as majestically as poetry. She also gave me permission to shut out the world and follow my bliss.

Apologies!! I somehow posted my Link-up in the Treasure section. It's meant to be in the regular link-up. So it appears twice... - Amy

Brian Betts, a Canadian writer, just received an award after submitting work 25 times - once a year. That's tenacity. It bothers me that writers have such a tiny slit through which we must slip in order to reach daylight. What other art form is decided upon by one or two people? Thank goodness for the Internet.
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You are doing a great job - stimulating, feeding and encouraging. Many thanks.

Thank you, Red Dress, for this welcome, well-seasoned, diverse-based and comfortable-in-his-skin voice of experience.

I feel well fed, Roy. Thank you. Your ingredients will sustain my waddle and trudge down this path to wherever.