Shelly Holder! (@writinflower01) profile picture

Host of BYOB+B Poetry Book Club. Reader at Bluebird Review. Poet. Dog mom.

wild suburban LA
Joined March 2009
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I totally just used my nose on my touchscreen because I had no hands free. This is a new low of which I'm oddly proud.
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I am being a very brave girl and killing my own damn spider. But my mantra right now is "Mommy, save me."
It's always so hard, coming home from writing class. Buzzing with stimulus, restless. Aching to actualize my lessons.
Writing poetry in the 20 minute intervals between cupcake pans.
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I just got my acceptance letter to the Kenyon Writers Program for this summer!!! Wheee!
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I love hockey. It's the angry love child of soccer and billiards.
And by "phrase", I mean three words. Four, if I'm lucky. And by "perfect", I mean I'll only rewrite it twice. #writinglife
It's amazing, that feeling when you know you wrote the perfect phrase. I'll spend the next 6 months writing the rest of the poem, but still.
Does watching this lion documentary and listening for interesting words count as a first draft of a poem? I'm calling this multi-tasking! :D
Detritus found cleaning my room: 3 lipsticks, 2 chapsticks, 6 packs of gum, half roll of mints, a tin of mints, 2 tissue packs, insanity.
Dear heavens... color coding my life.
AHHHHHHHHHH! Out of coffee! What will I dooooooooooooooooooooo?!? *sobs uncontrollably*
Woke up excited because it was raining. Then realized it was my white noise app. #firstworldproblems
sorry but yr password must contain the feeling of being a whole person
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I don't sleep til my eyes cross & the letters on the screen rearrange in bizarre ways & the birds chirp me a lullaby. #stubborn #insomniac
Just read "biologist" as "blocjocket." *slapsforehead* Time for bed.