Christine Gabrièlle

Journaling is Writing

I’m a strong advocate for journaling. It’s a great way to relive stress, flesh out thoughts, and memorialize events in our lives. I often use journaling to vent my frustrations and to really understand what I’m thinking. There are times when I can’t fully work through what I’m feeling until I write things down. Strangers…

Christine

April 13, 2021

For Writers Who Don’t Feel Like Writers

How do you define yourself? Do you define yourself by what you like, what you do, or what you accomplish? Maybe you define yourself by something else entirely. When it comes to writing, I define myself as a writer with a lowercase “w” instead of an uppercase one. Dictionary.com offers the following definitions of “writer”:…

Christine

April 6, 2021

Writing Journal

reading, Short Stories, writer, writing, writing habit, writing practice, writing routine

Not Writing Becomes the Reward of Not Writing

…behavior that gets rewarded tends to get repeated. If you stop writing then you’re kind of rewarding yourself with not writing. -Octavia E. Butler I was half-listening to an old Octavia Butler interview on YouTube when she said the above quote. I had to pause what I was doing and rewind the video to hear…

Christine

March 30, 2021

Writing Journal

not writing, writing, writing challenge, Writing Journal, writing practice, writing schedule

A Literary Shadow Box

It’s been a few months since my short story “Makers of Men” was published in Issue 3 of midnight & indigo. One of the things I was excited to do when the book came out was to memorialize a copy for myself. I had an old shadow box that I bought on sale at Michael’s…

Christine

March 23, 2021

Personal, Related Things

crafting, crafts, creative writing, diy, DIY project, project, reading, writing

Let’s Daydream for a Second…

I was reading articles about student loan forgiveness yesterday. One of the provisions of the new relief bill that passed is it alleviates the tax burden on student loans that are forgiven. Meaning forgiven loans (under existing and new plans) aren’t going to be treated as taxable income, and people who’ve had their loans forgiven…

Christine

March 16, 2021

Short Stories

creativewriting, daydreaming, reading, shortstories, shortstory, writing, writingpractice

We Are Not Ourselves

The title caught me immediately, but I haven’t decided how to feel about this book. To be fair, I’m still at the beginning, slowly reading through each chapter. I haven’t been pulled into the story yet. All I know so far is there are Irish immigrants, there’s a girl and her father and her mother.…

Christine

March 9, 2021

Related Things

Making Space

I don’t know if I’ve told you this before, but I feel like I’ve lost myself. I’ve been in survival mode for several months, and I feel like I have lost the best parts of who I am. I’ve lost the parts that love reading, writing, and learning. I’ve forced myself through workdays when all…

Christine

March 2, 2021

Personal

clearing, findingmyself, learning, makingspace, priorities, purging, releasing, selfcare

Indulging in a Writing MasterClass

I honestly did not mean to leave you hanging the past couple of weeks. It’s just that none of the things I wanted to say felt right coming out. I was going to tell you about my book coming back from the editor and my budgetary constraints slowing the self-publishing process to a standstill, but…

Christine

February 23, 2021

Puzzle Break!

When was the last time you started a puzzle? And the last time you completed one? I woke up this past Saturday morning with the unusual urge to do a puzzle! I can’t remember the last time I had a puzzle, let alone actually putting one together. Last week was entirely stressful and I needed…

Christine

February 2, 2021

All the Black Teas!

Okay, not all of them, but a few. For the past few years I’ve been drinking Publix brand black tea bags even though all my other teas have been loose leaf teas from Tea Clan. A couple weeks ago I was running low on black tea and decided to switch to loose leaf once and…

Christine

January 26, 2021