NaPoWriMo Workshops Forum

1. I love my family as we all do, my husband, my children, grandchildren, my feline babies and my fish. I love my friends too! I've written several about my husband and my relationship beginning. My granddaughter Caitlyn and I have tossed words back and forth when she was in 8th grade creating to acrostic poems together. I wrote a tribute for one dear friend recognizing his military service. I know I will do more military focused poems for my son, who is Senior Chief in the US Navy, he has been there 19 years. I can't believe that it has been that long, it seems like yesterday we took him to the bus that changed our lives.

Hobbies, differences, commitment, family, death, loneliness, and illness would cover the subjects I would consider for this area.

2. I love quilting, sewing, and crocheting. I love tossing different colors on my felt wall and watching a project come together. I feel the same way in the garden, watching it break thru the dirt and turn into natural painting that visually stimulates me and then feeds my family. I love reading and writing, it is insatiable for me. The more I read, I discover more to read. The more comfortable I feel putting words on pages for people to read the more I will do it. I am still shy about people reading reviews about my work. Blogging has helped me immensely gain confidence.

Color my world, creations of the heart, expanding my world, needle therapy, and nature's palette would cover my passion.


3. I don't love this area but I feel strongly I can make a difference. Maybe some young girl won't suffer like I did. Suicide attempts in my teens, molestation, alcoholic parents, marriage at a very young age, and domestic violence. I've written a couple poems already about my first marriage, I was only 16 and desperately wanted to escape my home but naively jumped into a frying pan. I wrote one short story about my father molesting me. Emotionally, it was good but the reviews although were very encouraging made me feel ashamed all over again. It's a hard topic but it needs to be brought out of the closet and into the open.

Survival, betrayed innocence, untimely demise, skeletons in closets, crutches, independence