Daria Blackwell

Today I entered my first writing competition. I entered a flash fiction piece, the first I have ever written.  I submitted it to Fish , t...

If we lay down on the earth and let our brains just take in the sky throughout the night, this is what we would see.  In a carefully chos...

Yesterday's weather was partly awful. Today's weather forecast is dire. Tomorrow's is worse. The day after continues poorly. The...

Many famous authors throughout history have written under pseudonyms that became vastly more well-known than the authors’ real names ...

Counting words seemed to me initially to be a counter intuitive concept. After all, is it not about the quality of the words rather th...

I've had several sources of inspiration recently which have spurred a period of creativity like I have not experienced in some time. Thr...

I am a firm believer that you have to experience the bad to appreciate the good. And I believe that changes in mood inspire creativity....