by Avery White | Jan 18, 2017 | Training
Facebook Quidditch The land and sea and rivers violent quake Unearthly scream of wind through stormy pitch Into the darkness did the preacher spake To steer a broomstick fast in play quidditch What then dementors rise to cause a fall Disrupt the player take the course...
by Avery White | Jan 16, 2017 | Meta
Time for some real talk… As of January 15, 2016 there were 44 subscribers. Now we have 119. Yay! Last year TPC published 38 posts, garnered 4,445 page views, and was visited by 1,686 unique visitors. Cool!!! But I wanted to know what I could do better… So...
by Rachel Bloem | Jan 3, 2017 | Spotlight
I’m excited to welcome Rachel Bloem to the TPC stage today! A native of Bryan, Texas, Rachel received her Bachelor of Music from Berklee College of Music with an emphasis in music therapy, vocal performance and psychology. As an emerging artist in the Brazos...
by Avery White | Dec 20, 2016 | Challenges
Fish footprints are useless. But what if you could freeze the lake? What if every wake was preserved in a flash? Then we might be onto something… (WARNING: I’ve had a LOT of caffeine this morning.) And what if instead of a lake we were talking about the atmosphere...
by Stacey Maney | Dec 13, 2016 | Spotlight
Today’s post is by author, illustrator, and photographer Stacey Maney. Stacey can be found in her studio, somewhere outside, or working alongside her husband, Mike. Stacey is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI). To...
by Avery White | Nov 22, 2016 | Challenges
I swear. Comparison can make you better, or incite you to burn your keyboard. Writers have to deal with things like ‘commas’ and ‘semicolons’, the rules of which are akin to international hostage negotiation. So whenever I read Rowling, watch...
by Avery White | Nov 8, 2016 | Spotlight
The Story Victoria Griffin, author and Campbell University softball player, sustained a severe concussion that stole away her ability to read, walk, write, and speak. During what would have been her senior season of college softball, she endured the slow recovery...
by Avery White | Nov 1, 2016 | Spotlight
We Have Been Forced Into a Conflict… This is not journalism. It’s a call to arms. Not of weapons metal, or bullets hot with scorn, but of spitting fire – yes. …for we are called to meet the challenge of a principle… That as consumers of contemporary...
by Christy Cisneros | Oct 4, 2016 | Training
Today’s post is by Christy Cisneros, a recent participant in the Navasota Artists in Residence program (you might remember NAiR from this post). Christy was kind enough to offer her expertise on the tools she utilizes in the day to day. I had no idea so much...
by Avery White | Sep 26, 2016 | Training
Today’s post is by Andre Jackson. Andre is an entrepreneur who recently made the jump from his corporate job to running his own custom woodwork and photography business. I was blessed to catch up to him right as he was making the transition between the two and...
