A sample text widget

Etiam pulvinar consectetur dolor sed malesuada. Ut convallis euismod dolor nec pretium. Nunc ut tristique massa.

Nam sodales mi vitae dolor ullamcorper et vulputate enim accumsan. Morbi orci magna, tincidunt vitae molestie nec, molestie at mi. Nulla nulla lorem, suscipit in posuere in, interdum non magna.

Scribble Your Way to Liberation: Three Daily Pages

Use this technique for: a daily practice to clear your head.

Starting point: at the start of three pages.

Ending point: when three pages have been filled.

8:47 AM Vivaldi, and the usual breakfast. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Were I at the old job, I’d be getting coffee and settling in. But I’m […]

Scribble Your Way to Liberation: The Shit Book

Chapter Three: The Three Daily Pages Use this technique for: a daily practice to clear your head. Starting point: at the start of three pages. Ending point: when three pages have been filled. 8:47 AM Vivaldi, and the usual breakfast. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Were I at the old job, I’d be getting […]

Scribble Your Way to Liberation: The Catbook

Use this technique for: making wait times a lot more bearable. Starting point: when you have a spare moment and not much else to do. Stopping point: when the spare moment ends. Band’s over, but the rain’s still falling and looks like it will be for some time. So I guess I’ll pass the time […]

Catbooks and Other Methods

When I was in high school back in the 20th century, I was introduced to the concept of free writing. I was taking Advanced Placement English (which is much like a regular English class, except that they expect more of you) and the teacher started each class by playing a song on a primitive device […]

Hello world!

“Hello world!” is, of course, the default post title for one’s very first WordPress blog post. It seemed oddly apropos to leave it there.

My name is Sheila O’Shea and I am a writer. I am a writer the way other people are smokers and drinkers–writing is a habit for me, a compulsive one that […]