by Mary DeRosa | Apr 5, 2016 | Encouragement, Writing
The poem below was written back in the day, for my husband (then boyfriend), Paul. Not long out of the military, he was struggling with wanting to make something of himself. To be his own man, on his own terms…whatever that meant. Unfortunately, quite a few people in...
by Mary DeRosa | Mar 29, 2016 | Encouragement, Perseverance, Resistance, Writing
I was really hitting my stride. Getting back to the novel that I had been dancing with for way too long. Ready to finally send out my first email newsletter for this blog. Talking to my partner Curt about the post-production progress of our short film Waiting for...
by Mary DeRosa | Mar 7, 2016 | Gratitude, Perseverance, Writing
A few years ago, I read an article about a 13 year old girl named Athena Orchard who died of a rare form of bone cancer. I’ve never forgotten Athena, for a number of reasons. First and foremost, the tragedy of her having such an unfairly short amount of time on this...
by Mary DeRosa | Feb 25, 2016 | Procrastination, Resistance, Writing
Today – okay, let’s be honest here – the past two weeks I have done a truly masterful job of avoiding the rewrite on my novel. Everything from the grocery store to the dust bunnies under the couch clamored for attention. Throw in the adoption of a...
by Mary DeRosa | Jan 13, 2016 | Films, Screenplays, Short Films, Writing
This morning I watched the rough cut of my new short film Waiting for Goodbye with tears spilling into my coffee. Being that it explores the feelings of a young woman as she spends her last morning with her beloved dog, I suppose my reaction was a good sign. We were...
by Mary DeRosa | Jan 4, 2016 | Books, Creativity, Writing
“So, how many of these will you ever actually read again?” my husband asked as he tripped over the stupidly huge piles of books obscuring the bedroom floor. Considering there were more than I could count, I opted to plead the fifth. Like a lot of writers, I...
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