by Terra Osterling | Aug 27, 2015 | Experiences, How I got "here", Interesting People
As a writer and a storyteller, it’s hard to admit that I don’t know how to begin. Something is missing. Not something practical like a pencil or keyboard. Not something existential like creativity. This isn’t writer’s block. The something missing is more like having...
by Terra Osterling | Jan 13, 2015 | Books and Reading, How I got "here", Outside my comfort zone, Storytelling
Dystopia. Noun. 1: An imaginary place where people lead dehumanized and often fearful lives. 2: Anti-Utopia. Apocalypse. Noun. 1: The complete final destruction of the world. 2: An event involving destruction or damage on an awesome or catastrophic scale. My...
by Terra Osterling | Sep 23, 2014 | How I got "here", Writing
I don’t remember what it was like to write without a computer. To have to erase, leaving ‘crumbs’, and rewrite. Or, to crumple the page and start over. To cross out and to pencil in a new line squeezed above or snaked down the margin. Do you? I suppose I remember well...
by Terra Osterling | Jul 8, 2014 | Experiences, Game-changers, How I got "here", Outside my comfort zone
Six months past the Polar Vortex and a winter season spent, literally, under a blanket, I have a new found love for summer. The balmy breezes coming through the window screen, heavy with the fragrance of everything alive: sweet grass and milkweed blossoms, pungent...
by Terra Osterling | Dec 1, 2013 | How I got "here", Old jobs
Right now, the world is filled with shows of “giving thanks.” We are all thankful for health, employment, family, education, food on your plate, clothes on your back, and a roof over your head. Those objects of gratitude are really low hanging fruit. Lately,...
by Terra Osterling | Nov 3, 2013 | Business of Freelance Writing, Finding the artist in me, How I got "here", Old jobs
The phrase ‘screen time’ is in the Oxford dictionary: Screen time: noun : the time allotted to or occupied by a particular subject, actor, etc., on film or television: these characters deserve more screen time : time spent using a device such as a computer,...