By guest blogger Ja’Nese Dixon I was raised in Oklahoma. Snow came every winter like clockwork and it was a normal part of my childhood. My children have lived in Texas their entire lives. Snow is nearly foreign to them. However, one year about five or six years ago snow fell in Austin. My daughter…
Tag Archive: Black Diamond
Fear: The Dream Stealer
By guest blogger Ja’Nese Dixon “What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.” I think I live by this Tim Ferriss quote. It has become somewhat of a mantra when I’m fighting the urge to talk myself out of doing something for no other reason than being a scaredy-cat. No…
6k Short of 10k
Reprinted with permission from Ja’nese Dixon Fear of Writing held a day-long challenge. Writers were asked to cop a squat and write 10k words. I had a plan. I would gather my research for Black Diamond and use the time to work on my outline for NaNoWriMo. I had part of that right—I worked on…
