Apps This Gal Can't Live Without

You'd be hard pressed to ever find me without my iPhone in hand. It's become essential for me to stay connected, organized and entertained. It's cliche to say, but I truly couldn't live without it. Over the year that I've had my iPhone, there have been apps have come and go, but below are three apps that I truly could never let go because my life would be in shambles if I did.

 
Bloglovin' - As a blogger one of the most important things for me is to keep up with other blogs and not just my own. The only way I can do that is to have some sort of a blog feed. Bloglovin' is the best one I've come across, I've tried so many before and none have been as good as this one. It's also earns a gold star from me for having a Tumblr feel. Follow my blog with Bloglovin'.

 

Evernote - This app by far is the best thing that has happened to both my fiction and my "professional" writing in a long time. It's far more convenient than trying to carry a pad and pen around. Whenever I get jolts of inspiration I just whip out my phone, start that baby up and write away. It's also where I've written most of my up coming posts at. In fact, that's where the first draft of this post was conceived.

 

Icon Pop Games - This post has been a little bit misleading as to who I am. It seems like I'm all work and no play. That could not be further from the truth. I've downloaded ever single one of the Icon Pop games. And in all honesty, they probably take up more of my time than just about anything else. They're the right mix of addictive, fun and challenging. I can't get enough of them and I will not rest until I have conquered them all.

50 Word Friday: New Beginnings

Prompt from: 50 First Words
Title: New Beginnings

The goodbye was naturally going to be sad, with a lot of tears. But neither of them had been outside Minnesota. So, they knew they were starting a new chapter of their lives, it was a necessity. Besides, maybe in four years they’d meet again and fall in love again.

50 Word Friday: Vespa

Prompt from: 50 First Words
Title: Vespa

He wasn’t to blame. He was leaving for Nebraska and she to Wisconsin. They’d be so far apart. He wanted to go together.  To watch her cruise campus on her Vespa, dazzling everyone with her wit, kindness and beauty. But they couldn’t.  They had different dreams they needed to realize.

 

Day 003: Write Poorly

A while back I read a great piece of advice that has done wonders for my writing confidence. The advice was to allow yourself to write poorly. Before I read that I felt I needed to get everything perfect on the first draft. But that's what the editing process is for. Just because I write something down doesn't mean I've been committed to it for life. What did I think the backspace key or eraser or squiggles were invented for?

50 Word Friday: Bedazzled

At the start of this year I decided I wanted to take part in the oh-so-popular 365 project. You know, the one where a person takes a picture everyday for an entire year. Yeah, I wanted to do that but with short stories. I eventually stumbled upon the magnificent First 50 blog. I fell in love with the idea of 50 Word stories. So, I grabbed my notebook and pen and set out for my very own 365 project. And let’s just say that didn’t go so well. I didn’t even last an entire week. But it’s been something I’ve really wanted to do. Enter the creation of 50 Word Friday. Basically, what I’ll be doing is the same concept, 50 word short stories, but instead of daily I’ll do it on a much more manageable weekly basis.

Prompt from: 50 First Words
Title: Beddazled

Follow the jump to read the story.