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Monday 29 January 2018

A Bunch of Crazy Writers

David looks at me and rolls his eyes. "What are you up to this time?"

I giggle and stick my tongue out at him. "Writer stuff."

"Tell me something I don't know." He looks at me as he always does. I can almost see the thoughts floating behind his eyes.

I love her. But she's a strange creature.

I wink at him return my gaze to the screen in front of me. The only way I can survive watching the television is by staying busy. My hands are always doing something, keeping my mind occupied in the dead minutes when nothing on the screen can hold my interest.

My fingers start hitting the keys. One eye on the draft I'm trying to finisha deep POV rewrite of a classic fairy tale from my childhoodand one eye monitoring the mayhem that goes on in the general channel of The Writers' Block.

The What-Now?




The Writers' Block. It's an online writers' community that I help moderate. We're basically a big bunch of crazy book geeks. Spread out all over the world, we focus on helping each other improve our writing skills. We have members on every continent and in every time zone. Activity on our chatting server on Discord never slows down and we like it that way.

We brainstorm together, review each other's drafts, and we pretty much have the craziest of conversations. 

We also have a monthly book club where people can participate to study a certain book, and a writers' workout where we assign weekly exercises for those who wish to enter.

Most of us have a Steem account, but it's not mandatory.

We welcome writers from all over the world, from every discipline involving the written word, and from every skill or experience level.

Are you a writer too? Looking for kindred spirits? Feel free to come and pay us a visit.

Hugs

Jasmine


A Place to Call My Own

My name is Jasmine.

I live a blessed life in a rural part of Belgium, along with my soon-to-be husband David, and our four dogs, Henna, Liam, Kate and Lucie.

David is in the military, which means that he spends a lot of time away from home, leaving me behind with the dogs.

As lovely as they are, they're not the best conversationalists. That's why I leave a lot of words behind on Steemit, a blockchain-based social media/blogging platform.

Ever since I was a child, I've had a profound love for everything and anything involving the written word. That, combined with an inborn need to create, makes writing the perfect outlet for me. It's not my only outlet though.

Thoughts tumble through my head in a sort of constant chaos, and I need to release them from time to time. That may take the form of a story, a non-fiction article, a poem, an opinionated ramble, a painting or a sketch... It could be anything, really.

My Steem page resembles the stream of radom thought and images as they fall out of my brain. I hope this page will become the diary in which I organise those thoughts and images.

I'll be sharing the links to my writing and artwork, as well as random bits of life here.


Feel free to visit any time. I look forward to it.

*Hugs*

Jasmine