The Cozy Library's Card Catalog
The complete list of workshop lessons offered to inspire you to read, write, and create.
Looking for some creative inspiration? Work your way through some of my past offerings. Pick and choose lessons in any order.
The Meta Journal Workshop
meta (adj.): showing or suggesting an explicit awareness of itself or oneself as a member of its category : cleverly self-referential (Merrium-Webster Dictionary)
No, not that meta! In this collection of posts, find inspiration in your old diaries, journals, photographs, yearbooks, and other mementos of the past to find inspiration for your writing, art, and other creative pursuits.
Inside these posts, you will find quotes from my personal diaries (dating back to when I was twelve!), personal essays, and prompts that will encourage you to look at your own life, not other people’s, for inspiration.
The Meta Journal Workshop Using your old journals and diaries to find characters for your novels and stories.
Dear Diary Using your childhood diary to find creative inspiration.
Lessons in Literature: An Open Letter to My Eighth Grade English Teacher Find creative inspiration in your school yearbooks.
Dreams as Inspiration Use your dreams as inspiration for your writing and other creative projects.
The Syllabus Series
Want to deep dive into a genre a literature? The Syllabus Series helps you organize a plan to do just that.
Introduction to the Syllabus Series and What Inspired It
Children’s Classic Literature Syllabus Series
The Borrowers (Includes a peek inside the dollhouse I’m working on!)
For Food Lovers
I write a lot of food memoir essays and sometimes I share my recipes. You can find a round-up of the recipes here.