#DearAgent ~ Day 2

Dear Agent, WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?  I am working on an incredible story about amazing people and need your help What's the first thing that comes to your mind when you see those words:     WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR? What is that thing that you tell yourself is the reason you don't have…

Dear Agent ~ Day 1

#DearAgent, You will receive hundreds, maybe even thousands of solicited and unsolicited requests in the history of your career. You will receive mountains of manuscripts and screenplays that perhaps you may never read. I could go the traditional route of sending you all countless letters that I may or may not get a response to.…

An Artist’s Worth! The Artist Series Part 1 of 3

“We can’t pay you!” “Will you speak at my school for free?” “Its not in the budget!” “That’s not a real job!” “You’re a writer? That’s a nice hobby!” “You’re a writer? I have a great story, you should write my book!” “I want to pursue writing. Do you think you can read my work…

SANKOFA SISTERHOOD WRITERS RETREAT – Update

This morning I am thinking about YOU! I am thinking about WOC, writers, women, artists who may not take their art, their craft, their calling seriously. Women who for whatever reason don't make the time for their art. Women who don't value themselves enough to pay for something that would be so beneficial for them!…

The Seduction

Excerpted from Finding Your Force, Chapter 26 Sharing our lives when it has always been just US~ Things were changing in our lives. You and I were good. My writing career was taking off. I no longer had the need to be in a relationship. I wasn’t looking for anyone. It has just been you…

The Day You Saved My Life

Chapter Two: Finding Your Force Our beginnings / Summer 1991 I remember the first time your abuela and I found out. We went to see this bruja in Providence, RI. The room was dark, candles lit everywhere. San Miguel hanging on the wall, images of unfamiliar saints were on the floor, and this older woman…

Chora

by Lexi Eikelboom Chora The womb is a rhythm. It pulses with life, communicates, pours itself out, interrupts, gives form. Rhythm both gives identity and interrupts identity. Each life is given particularity by the pace at which it moves and the shapes it makes, but that life can be disrupted by the interposition of other…

Forgetting the Dream ~

Writing Towards Manifestation Day 2 ~ Forgetting the Dream! Part 2: The Tale of the Far Off Land… There is something calling saying LET ME OUT! How have I gotten comfortable? How have I regressed? How have I blocked myself? I am waking up from a deep sleep. After many months of staying comfortable, of…

Falling Asleep on the Dream ~ Writing Towards Manifestation ~ Day 1

Writing Towards Manifestation ~ Falling Asleep on the Dream! Part 1: The Tale of the Far Off Land… I have been asleep for most 2014. I am meditating on this truth this morning. Yesterday I realized something important for my life: when I am moving there is much I accomplish. When I am searching I…

Writing Towards Manifestation!

Something powerful happened to me this morning. I was moving around the house getting ready for work when I started to really think about what I haven't been doing. I was thinking about how much time has been wasted. Specifically, how much time I have spent feeling sad! Today I finally shifted my thoughts a…