Category: Me Rambling

    In honor of Banned Books Week (September 21-27th), I decided to do a blog post about banning and challenging books.    There are many reasons parents challenge and attempt to ban books from schools, the most common being "unsuited to age group" (989 challenges), "offensive language" (1,291 challenges), and "sexually explicit material" (1,577… Continue reading Banned Books Week

    Scrivener is my new best friend.      Now, I've only been using it for two days so I haven't had time to really go through everything and experience any troubles (the only trouble I'm having is changing the standard font color from red to black, because I'm so computer oriented).  It's got… Continue reading Scrivener

    So this week as I was writing and realizing that I don't get to share much more of Rose with you guys, I started to feel lonely.  I need a writer buddy who I can share all my stuff with and who will share their writing with me too.      I started Hypergraphia as… Continue reading Scribophile

    I found one of these images the other day and I decided to compile a collection of the struggles of my favorite writer.  I hope you enjoy!    ~Alyson

    Well, I had a very profitable birthday last week.  I received four books as presents.  Later, we stopped by a yard sale and I bought six Mary Higgins Clark mysteries at 5 cents each.  Even later than that, I got to spend an hour inside Barnes & Noble just wandering.  The last time… Continue reading New Books

    Just a few quick notes to start of this post-   1) Thank you to Husband of Mine for my lovely new logo!  I absolutely love it and I hope you do too.  He is awesome.  2) I apologize for the missing post last week, but I have really not been feeling well and… Continue reading More Old Poetry

    I compiled some random poems from the past four years of my life to post.  The first ones are the oldest, and the last one is the most recent that I wrote.  The topics vary from my brief period running track in high school, to the emotional struggles of a teenager, to when… Continue reading Some Old Poems

    I apologize for my lack of posts this week.  For some reason I have been thrown out of my normal routine all week and it has made writing difficult.  To make up for missing a post this week, this post will be extra long, and I'll (try to) write an extra post for next… Continue reading The Portal