Weekend Coffee Share — First October Sunday

A cup of coffee and a conversation

Welcome to October! I am so excited the temperatures have finally cooled. It was still HOT at the beginning of the week and I hope that phase of Mother Nature’s tantrum is complete.

I am having my normal dark black coffee but am thinking I may have some pumpkin spice added in there! Hot apple cider is an option for you as well.

If we were having coffee I would tell you I participated in an online writing class this week. I was able to do some study with flash fiction and get some great feedback from the instructor and the other writers. I enjoy having more prompts in my data bank. Reading the other writing was amazing as always. There is much to learn from reading other’s writing to the same prompt.

If we were having coffee I would tell you I taught my own class on writing on Monday to fellow teachers. I based most of it on a Cornelius Minor workshop I went to this summer. I told everyone it was going to be more of a conversation about writing and interactive. I had some anxiety about teaching it on Sunday and decided to let that go. People had signed up for the class on purpose-they weren’t being forced. I wanted to make it sure the time was not boring and that they were able to walk away with some writing ideas to use with their…