Tag: hard work

• New year… new goals…so grateful for them.

  Hello all! Happy new year. Here’s hoping this year is amazing. I started this blog towards the end of last year hoping I would have a place to share discoveries, revelations, and writing inspiration. I feel it has definitely been that. I hope to be much more dedicated to my blog this year. My goal […]

  Jessica Owen

  January 1, 2021

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• Your voice matters…So Vote!

  

  My mother one year dressed my sister and I as suffragettes…it was for our Harvest festival at our church, we even made cardboard signs with paint stirrers… it’s a wonderful memory. It is a privilege so many fought for. I have voted every year since the day I turned 18… I admire so many women […]

  Jessica Owen

  November 3, 2020

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• Sangria…thoughts…and Mexican food…

  So it’s taco Tuesday…fajitas is what we made tonight… I’m stuffed…sangria is my go too because margaritas kick my ass… Mixed wine is a nice change from red wine or white. My campfire my go to everyday if not rainy…no matter how tired I worn out it calms me… relaxes me… The last time I […]

  Jessica Owen

  October 27, 2020

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• Conversations with the moon…

  Do you ever try to work things out by taking to the moon? Well in my moments when I’m working things out for my characters, conflicts, story, plot, relationships I pretty much talk to anyone that will listen…I do this with or without alcohol involved…really! Tonight I was working through a tenuous scene. Filled with […]

  Jessica Owen

  October 25, 2020

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• Starry nights…clear direction

  

  Many people love constellations. Many people love space exploration. I just love the stars. On a clear night it’s beautiful. Tonight I am pretty sure I saw a meteor… it was beautiful. I had a star I used to wish on every night before bed. I could see it clearly from my window. So I […]

  Jessica Owen

  October 21, 2020

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• Apple cider…stress…and campfires

  So today was incredibly stressful. My work was so hectic. So many call outs. So much of just everything. I came home took a nap and poured myself an apple cider…(one with Carmel vodka and apple whiskey-I’m two in now) Campfires…I have explained calm me. So I poured myself another cider and built a campfire…I […]

  Jessica Owen

  October 20, 2020

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• Mermaids are wise…and fairytales are real…

  Believing in fairytales is one thing. Creating a modern version another. That is my purpose of my current trilogy…

  Jessica Owen

  October 10, 2020

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• Fall and the beauty of a moment..,

  You know those days when you work so hard, you want to cry. Your exhausted, your worried you didn’t do enough… that was me today. I have always been an over achiever constantly working harder, trying harder, even at the expense of my own physical limitations… Then a coworker said to me… why do you […]

  Jessica Owen

  October 8, 2020

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• Read…write…and edit carefully!

  This quote pretty much sums up my writing life. I am reading constantly, writing consistently, and editing every week. It’s a process that’s tedious and so rewarding. It’s a whole gamut of emotions everyday, every week, when each chapter is done. It’s a breath, then fear, then how can this be better. It is a […]

  Jessica Owen

  October 7, 2020

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• Writing…do I really have a clue?

  I always reach a point in my second act…that I fear I don’t have any idea what I’m doing. Or at least I worry I don’t… I reach the midpoint. Act two is my nemesis…I am trying to make all the things happen that I promised in the first act, deal with relationships, conflicts, plot […]

  Jessica Owen

  October 4, 2020

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• Finding balance amidst chaos…

  I took a few extra days off this week. They were wonderful and relaxing. I returned to work today…it was complete an utter chaos. In my absence nothing was done. I came to work to empty shelves. Talk about stress. Proceeded to work through all my breaks to get caught up. (I am a cold […]

  Jessica Owen

  September 29, 2020

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• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder…

  I don’t know about you but I am constantly seeing all these posts on how to change a women’s body. How to look like Kim? Wtf…this irritates me because I see beauty in every women. I do not judge them be their appearance. It is there character that I see. The beauty in all the […]

  Jessica Owen

  September 26, 2020

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