Dear friends, whether you be readers, visitors, followers or lurkers ;), I have a question for you: What would you like to see on this blog in the new year? I see that there's been a lot of enthusiasm for certain posts, such as my Artist's Way posts one, two, and three, or my posts… Continue reading Question to My Readers, Visitors, Followers…Lurkers?
Author: cskinnaird
Writer, journalist, blogger, and editor.
Based in Florida. Loves travel and Eastern spirituality.
Writes novels, poetry, short fiction.
Bringing in the New Year
Whew! The holidays are almost over, and I, for one, can say I am looking forward to it. While I will miss Christmas cookies, the Christmas tree, and the overall mood of fun and good cheer, I'm excited about the new year. Personally, I hate making resolutions on-paper and such, because I find I tend… Continue reading Bringing in the New Year
Planning Your Book with NowNovel
I know I said I would post by Friday, but gosh darnit, I just plum forgot! So here I am posting on...Sunday! Haha. I'm going to be honest here, guys. Right now, I'm having a happy moment with my novel revisions, and so I'm posting a really short thing right now! But I think I… Continue reading Planning Your Book with NowNovel
My friend is getting published!!!
Author Spotlight Elizabeth Roderick <<--- GO check it out!! My friend just got published! She’s writing about mental health and struggles in the YA genre, which I think is super unique and much needed. So many people out there struggle with mental issues and don’t get accepted. She’s also written an Adult Erotica Crime thriller,… Continue reading My friend is getting published!!!
Feeling Inspired
I would like to give a HUGE, HUGE, HUGE thanks out there to all of my followers! I was just looking over the WordPress "insights" page for this blog's data. This blog has had followers for seven months! Yaaaay! I hope to do a big special post when the one-year anniversary of Itchy Fingers is… Continue reading Feeling Inspired
Of Writing Progress and Reading Steampunk
Recently I joined a fun website to keep myself accountable about writing something every day, even if it's just journaling. The website requires you to write 750 words a day, and gives you badges as rewards for hitting special rungs of the ladder. Here's a bit of a journal entry today; please excuse my sleepy… Continue reading Of Writing Progress and Reading Steampunk
The Internal Story
While my follow up to my post on cliche is coming soon, I wandered into this amazing article on Writer Unboxed. The articles on WU are usually amazing, however, this one particularly struck me, because it spoke to my current struggle in my current WIP 2nd draft. Right now I am working on a 500… Continue reading The Internal Story
Cliche, Part 1
Right now I have a wrist injury from too much typing work at my part-time day job *sigh*, so I can't type a lot. Instead, I am going to share with you a hilarious, enlightening, epiphany-inducing page full of "rants" by a young woman, online name Limyaael, who has a lot to say on cliche.… Continue reading Cliche, Part 1
The Importance of Writing Mentors
This week has been a study in writing mentors. It began with a post I read somewhere, alas I forgot, where a writer said: Build up your writing community. So I went on the hunt to find an exclusive, fantasy-only writers community where I could participate in a forum and maybe even write some articles.… Continue reading The Importance of Writing Mentors
Lovely Old Books, Part 1
This post is going to be sadly cut short because I am have some drawing to work on, and writing...my room mate has been helping me to get back into drawing. I used to be pretty decent at drawing portraits, if I do say so myself. I've joined Pinterest and found some good pictures that… Continue reading Lovely Old Books, Part 1
Typing Madly 