Of few things I am certain. Change is inevitable. Babies and puppies will always cause some kind of visceral, deep rooted reaction. You need a night sky, devoid of city lights and full of stars to feel your appropriate size. Fewer sounds are more calming than a river flowing, rain hitting your rooftop, or a… Leer más Letters To Ourselves by Sarah Reichert
I have to admit. This isn’t in the holiday spirit. Unless you count gifting myself and other women I know, a reawakening of strength and self-worth, that has been laying dormant for too long. So yes. Consider this a gift, not just to me, but to any woman who has ever felt this dynamic, this… Leer más Poetry (Spirit) by Sarah Reichert
by sereichert As promised, here is this week’s workshop in form of a creativity drill. No stuffy mission statements or essays on the purpose of your writing and future endeavors in the field. Just good ol’ fashioned prompting. Enjoy! Writing can often become stagnant. Let’s face it, we are caught in the grooves of our… Leer más The Beautiful Writers Workshop Week #3: Ten Ridiculous First Lines by Sarah Reichert
by sereichert I know that I’ve written before about bolstering our creativity by keeping open minds concerning the direction our stories, characters, and plots can take. But in a world that can sometimes feel like a dark cloud over new ideas I think it’s important to revisit the power of a positive “What If?” in… Leer más The Power of “What If?” by Sarah Reichert
by sereichert In the spirit of this monumental week (bookending the days with a mountain writing retreat and probably the death of me by trail marathon on Saturday) I give you a short and sweet look at what trail running will do for a soul and what we can learn from a steady state of… Leer más Ode To The Trail by Sarah Reichert
by sereichert Hands down, one of the dumbest blog titles I’ve ever come up with. But what are you going to do? We all have seasons of creativity in our lives, and sometimes I’m in the winter of title production. Today is that sometime. On to the point. What is a Heat Index? Great question!… Leer más Heat Index: What Spicy Pepper is Your Novel? by Sarah Reichert
Every day is a stranger’s best guess who’ll show up to fill my skin not even I know what shape my mind will take or what chaotic beauty will emerge from which butterfly’s wing flap but I know she will be beautiful she always is broken or ballsy tired gloom or bursting rainbows contemplative or… Leer más Showing Up by Sarah Reichert
I’m not sure it’s a good sign when my first blog post of the year is late, but I think it’s probably an honest representation of my life. And let’s be fair, it’s only late by a few hours. I had a busy year in 2022, and some of the seeds I planted are now… Leer más Soul Care by Sarah Reichert
By Sarah Reichert Good morning! If you’ve been following our little romantic, time-traveling tryst, here is the next installment. Our star-crossed couple find themselves under the strain of propriety. If you need to catch up, please check out the previous episodes here on The Beautiful Stuff. Enjoy! The summer began its lazy progression into the… Leer más Westbury Falls —07
by Sereichert It was a goal heavy year. I talked briefly a few weeks ago about how to set up your own yearly goals in a manageable way, but today I want to talk about you. That’s right…not some bullet list on a webpage or a chart of tick-them-off boxes. I want to talk about… Leer más Lessons From The Year
By Sarah Reichert Good morning! For those of you who’ve been following me through the month of November, this marks the final installment of surviving NANOWRIMO (National Novel Writing Month). I’ve been flowing with a life-stages theme, and had intended to title this week “Retirement” but the thing with NANO is that only some of… Leer más NANOWRIMO Week Four: The Final Countdown
(Blog Sara) Hello! Thanks for taking the time to catch up with the blog in the middle of one of your (hopefully) busiest writing months. At this point your mind set is probably so swayed to creating that reading outside of your work in progress is a lot like talking to another adult after being… Leer más NANOWRIMO Week Two: Here Comes a Writer With a Baby Carriage By Sara Reichert
(Blog authors)https://thebeautifulstuff.blog/blog/ Ah, yes, the glorious stage of excitement and foreplay. The thrill of fleshing out your characters, and having them say clever things to one another, and building beautiful worlds with soft hues and brilliant sunsets. It’s champagne and butterflies, it’s rainbows and 3 hour love-making sessions with your laptop (please, God, not literally…the… Leer más NANOWRIMO Week One: The Honeymoon by Sara Reichert
Starting the 28th of this month I will be collaborating with Masticadores on a four-week series of blogs to help you navigate the main moods of National Novel Writing Month. If it’s one thing trying to write a novel in one month will do to you, it’s question everything you knew about writing and the… Leer más Masticadores/NANOWRIMO By Sara Reichert
(author´s site) Good morning, readers. I was puzzling over what to post about this week and in the middle of editing one series, formatting and finishing a first rough draft of the poetry anthology, and trying to adjust to new school schedules, I thought–what would I like to read? Sorry to say, nothing on editing.… Leer más A Little Excerpt: Westbury Falls by Sara Reichert
Blog Sara Link Good morning, readers. Today, I’m about to head into my second night of pre-testing for my 2nd Degree Black Belt in Kenpo Karate. Odds are at the time this post runs, I will be brain deep in trying to prepare, sore from the previous night’s test, and blinking vacantly over my first… Leer más August 5, by Sara Reichert
Masticadores.- Why do you write? I think this is the quintessential question for any human who’s put pen to paper. Why? Why do we write? Why do we have the drive and the need to say something? I think I’ve always had a daydreamy brain, and an overthinking brain. In a way, writing has… Leer más Masticadores INTERVIEW: Sarah Reichert (S.E. Reichert)
Times of transition are like hurricanes. Confusing, loud, messy and intense. There is uncertainty and a sense of powerlessness that directly affects our peace and sanctuary. Some of us deal with the changes with decidedly more grace than others. Some are rocked off their foundations, never to be the same again. The point is that… Leer más Finding Sanctuary in Times of Change by Sara Reichert
Sara Blog Exhale Who knew? (breathe in) This sickening depth of damage you’d leave? (blow it out slow) The hole so deep and wide an ache so subtly gnawing (don’t forget to breathe again…) Good riddance, I’d said (force air in) Don’t let the fucking door hit you (fake bravado exhale) I’m better off. I… Leer más Exhale by Sara Reichert
Beats the rhythm Inside my chest, Shaking the tender bones of my ear Arousing the eternal chorus The human heart beat, The womb of sound and voice That speaks in vibrations to The celestial mathematician Caged inside my cells How we dance, Humans How we shake our heads and hips Filling up the empty dark… Leer más CONNECTION by Sara Reichert
Gobblers & Masticadores 