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A gritty and unapologetic outlook on being a single mother, writer, and woman.
Listed: Feb 22, 2012
singlewritermomrants ― I’m a worrywart. I am. I worry about everything. I’ll worry about the grasshopper brought in by my cat that’s missing a leg and wonder how he’ll manage in the world once I set him free. I’ll worry that the sudden...
Tags: Rants, Single Motherhood, Women, Cat, Health Insurance
Singlewritermom ― 1 week 1 day ago
singlewritermomrants ― I have 5 more pages to edit of this hot mess of a current manuscript. I’m embarrassed to admit I started writing it a year ago, which may not sound like a long time for a novel, but in the world of romance, I should have written 3 novels in...
Tags: Writing, Dana Carvey, Novel, Romance, Romance Novels
Singlewritermom ― 2 weeks 2 days ago
singlewritermomrants ― When my son got his Xbox for Christmas, it had to be hooked up to our TV in the living room. It was a new flat screen TV, and since my son had one of those crappy, dinosaur TVs in his room, it made perfect sense. For him, not me. I have an open ...
Tags: Men, Motherhood, Boys, Mother And Son
Singlewritermom ― 3 weeks 6 days ago
singlewritermomrants ― I realize I will probably lose all my male followers after they read this post. DISCLAIMER ALERT FOR MEN: Reading this post may cause feelings of rage, sorrow, and desire for revenge against the writer. Please do not act on any of them. I’m...
Tags: Men, Motherhood, Single Motherhood, Women, Men
Singlewritermom ― 5 weeks 1 day ago
singlewritermomrants ― If you’ve read my blog for awhile you know I have to be both mother and father to my 10 year old boy. Often, I have expressed frustration over being at a total loss when it comes to teaching him how to be a man. But there’s no one else...
Tags: Men, Motherhood, Relationships, Single Motherhood, Women
Singlewritermom ― 6 weeks 1 day ago
singlewritermomrants ― I took a social media workshop last week that covered Facebook, Twitter, Triberr, Blogs, and Newsletters. Today, I have a social media hangover. Today, I feel like this: Today, I’m going to let other talented folks write my post for me. If ...
Tags: Animals, Funny, Cats, Dogs, Fat Awesome Films, Friends
Singlewritermom ― 7 weeks 1 day ago
singlewritermomrants ― Being the social media slut that I am, I’m on LinkedIn. But if you were to ask me what LinkedIn was, being the woefully inadequate social media slut that I am, I’d tell you to Google it. I do, however, appreciate the writerly ...
Tags: Women, Writing, Beer, Cats, Cougars
Singlewritermom ― 8 weeks 1 day ago
singlewritermomrants ― “SUBJECTIVE” is the word I hear most when discussing the publishing business, and writing in general. At first I really didn’t get what that meant. I figured if I wrote a great book, everyone would like it. (Stop laughing!) ...
Tags: Writing, Agents, Fifty Shades Of Grey, Form Rejection Letters, Publishing, Rejection
Singlewritermom ― 9 weeks 1 day ago
singlewritermomrants ― I discovered this very, very funny site a few weeks ago: http://crappypictures.com. Obviously, anything with “crappy” in the title is going to get my attention, and even more so when it involves crappy things having to do with ...
Tags: Motherhood, Rants, Single Motherhood, Women, Amber Dusick, Crappy Pictures
Singlewritermom ― 10 weeks 2 days ago
singlewritermomrants ― photo by Dan4th My son still believes in the Easter bunny. And Santa. And the Tooth Fairy. He’s almost 11, so every year I wonder, will this be the year when all his “role models” will be exposed for who they really are? He ...
Tags: Holidays, Motherhood, Beliefs, Candy, Easter, Easter Bunny
Singlewritermom ― 11 weeks 2 days ago
singlewritermomrants ― Reblogged from bottledworder: Is it possible to deal with a topic in depth in a single blog post and still be read by a substantial number of people on a blog platform? Or is a blog post meant to be short, striking, entertaining for a moment, even...
Tags: Motherhood
Singlewritermom ― 12 weeks ago
singlewritermomrants ― A friend of mine who lives in my complex mentioned he had spoken to one of his cop friends the other day. “You still living in the same place?” the cop asked. When my friend said he was, the cop told him, “The drug situation is...
Tags: Motherhood, Writing, Dirt, Drugs, Electronic Reading Devices
Singlewritermom ― 13 weeks ago
Currently around a half of organizations ranging in size from SMEs to large multinationals ...
∙ One of the few things I consider when buying a frock is the print. Growing up, I ...
My first thought when I saw the topic for this weeks Photo Challenge: Curves was the ...