Mothers the world over, from age to age, have never been unaware of the costs of war. Whether it’s watching husbands, fathers, sons, brothers, march off to the battlefield, welcoming them home when they are unwhole and scarred, burying them [...]
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Momming Monday: Memorial Day
Tagged with: Athena Grayson, History, Making Things, Memorial Day, Momming Mondays, thank a vet, Wellness
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Momming Monday: OCCUPY! The Children
School is winding down for us and the countdown is in the single digits. Some people send their kids to camp, others have their kids in spring and fall sports. I figure if I’m going to have them home all [...]
Tagged with: Arts & Crafts, Athena Grayson, creativity, dreams, Geekdom, imagination, Making Things, making things, momming monday, Momming Mondays, moms made of WIN, occupy, tree houses, wellness, Yer Mama Wears Combat Boots
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Strategic Thinking
When you’re building the world of your plot, you have to wear many hats. You have to see the future in several different iterations, you have to be a number of different characters, and you have to identify consequences sometimes [...]
Tagged with: Athena Grayson, branding, for writers, indie publishing, Making Things, Scribbling, self publishing, worldbuilding wednesday, Worldbuilding Wednesdays
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Amazing Things
Today, I’m speaking to everyone in my life, as well as everyone who happens upon this blog, to tell you that writing can be a lonely business. You sit around all day with only the people in your head for [...]
Tagged with: Athena Grayson, creating, Making Things, making things, reader appreciation, Scribbling, storytelling, Wellness, worldbuilding wednesday, Worldbuilding Wednesdays, Yer Mama Wears Combat Boots
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Momming Monday: It’s Not The Heat, It’s The Humanity
Monsoon season has come to lovely Ohio, and already the dehumidifiers are working overtime, and the pea-soup air is making my yearly declaration of “no A/C until after school ends” a failure seven days into May. But one thing the [...]
Worldbuilding Wednesday: Story Gardening
We’re gardeners, we writers are. We introduce characters that poke up their personalities like tender green shoots from fertile wood pulp (or pixels). Expose them to sunlight and watch them slowly reveal more and more of their makeup. Pelt them [...]
Tagged with: Athena Grayson, for writers, gardening, Making Things, Scribbling, story gardens, storytelling, worldbuilding wednesday, Worldbuilding Wednesdays
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Momming Monday: Authentic Living
What’s your truth?
Have you ever had that “set-adrift” or directionless feeling? Are you unenthusiastic about your work–whatever it may be–or feeling like the effort just ain’t worth it–no matter how much “effort” it really is? We all have ebbs and [...]
Tagged with: Athena Grayson, Making Things, momming monday, Momming Mondays, moms made of WIN, values, wellness, Wellness, Yer Mama Wears Combat Boots
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Worldbuilding Wednesday: Truth In Fiction
There are eight million stories in the Naked City…
Why do you write stories? Why not articles, or blog posts, or shopping lists with grand flourishes and curlicues? It’s because you have something to say.
Sure, we can say that we have [...]
Tagged with: Athena Grayson, creativity, creativity with meaning, Making Things, making things, Scribbling, truth in fiction, well writer, why we write, worldbuilding wednesday, Worldbuilding Wednesdays
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Momming Monday: Springing Ahead
Yeah, today’s the Time Change. Just when you’ve gotten used to getting up when it’s finally beginning to lighten outside, you get knocked back to waking at Oh-Dark-Hundred. Seems like this whole “Spring Ahead” thing does nothing but put you [...]
Tagged with: Athena Grayson, environment, health, healthy writer, Making Things, momming monday, Momming Mondays, moms made of WIN, organizing, spring ahead, time change, values, wellness, Wellness, Yer Mama Wears Combat Boots
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