{"id":15767,"date":"2026-02-04T19:08:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/?page_id=15767"},"modified":"2026-02-04T19:29:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T19:29:32","slug":"discoveries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/breanamarie.com\/playground\/books\/discoveries\/","title":{"rendered":"The Write Spot to Jumpstart Your Writing: Discoveries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

How Discoveries came about:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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In preparation for our son and his now wife to get married in our yard, my husband and I began renovating the yard. We spent almost every day from October 2016 to June 2017 planning, shopping, hauling, digging, planting, and more planning, shopping, hauling. . . you get the idea. It was an intense project.

Around January 2017 I realized after such busyness, it will be a letdown with nothing to do after the wedding. I needed a project to get me through After The Big Event Slump.

I thought about what I had wanted to do for a long time . . . produce a book for writers. I thought of the writers in the Jumpstart writing workshops that I facilitate. Over the years gorgeous writing has evolved from this group.

I formulated a plan and got to work. I gathered writing from Jumpstarters, organized the contents, and sent everything to Jo-Anne Rosen, book formatter extraordinaire. Through her magic, The Write Spot to Jumpstart Your Writing: Discoveries was produced.

Discoveries reveals techniques used in Jumpstart Writing Workshops. Whether you want to write fiction, memoir, non-fiction, or poetry, or if you are experiencing writers block, Discoveries will inspire your writing and open doors for self-discovery and transformational writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Missed Opportunities by DS Briggs<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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I was deprived of brown bagged school lunches. I never had a lunch box with a sandwich wrapped in wax paper. Never got to eat or trade sandwiches made with squishy white balloon bread. Missed out on dried-out baloney, peanut butter and grape jelly or tuna fish saturated bread. I missed out on homemade cookies, Hostess cupcakes, and Twinkies. I never got to carry a Nancy Drew or Dale Evans thermos. Worst of all my best and second best friends were cold lunch people.
I missed out on all the wonders of bagged lunches because my mom was convinced that buying a hot lunch was more cost effective. I have often wondered if the fact that she did not like to cook or grocery shop factored into her decision.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

The Write Spot to Jumpstart Your Writing: Discoveries is available for $15 at Amazon<\/a><\/a> and Book Passage<\/a> (Corte Madera) and as an ereader..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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