Amanda read a series of opinion blog posts today and was intrigued by the viewpoints of the author, who wrote about her struggles of growing up as a Catholic, facing difficulties along the way, and making the serious and equally difficult decision to leave Catholicism.
Author: Creative Writer
Freelance writer; Creative Idea Gal, founder of Socci Books, and an Artistic Recycling Gal. The common denominator in everything I do is creativity. Get to know me by viewing my 4 websites and thoughtfully reading my blog posts.
A Slight Setback in CWJ
On September 18, 2020, Amanda was honored with a very important phone call that lasted two hours. Amanda wrote a detailed blog post about this incredible experience and waited almost three months before publishing it. To this day, that juicy and beautiful blog post remains unpublished. The person with whom Amanda had this great conversation… Continue reading A Slight Setback in CWJ
CWJ – A Missed Anniversary – Happy 44th to Joy of Motion!
Last week, we missed an important milestone. On Monday, October 12, 2020 was the 44th anniversary of Joy of Motion dance studios. Exactly 44 years ago in 1976, Michelle Ava founded Joy of Motion by herself in Washington, D.C.
New Acronyms and General Updates
Happy Christopher Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples Day! However you choose to remember this special day in our nation’s history, we hope you are enjoying yourself and celebrating the unseasonable warmth of October before Halloween comes upon us. Here at Socci Books, we’ve been a busy family of four working diligently to advance our book… Continue reading New Acronyms and General Updates
When Inspiration Erupts, what do you do?
Are you familiar with the natural phenomenon of geysers? Geysers are springs of water that occasionally spout upward with a violent force, sometimes ejecting steam alongside. According to our good friends at Wikipedia, geysers appear in only a few places on earth.
Getting an audience for 4,000 words of personal reaction
Over the weekend, Amanda sat down and hashed through a first rough draft of her last day of visiting Joy of Motion dance studios. She had written down some notes of the route she took when she was driving to the studio and reviewed the photos from that trip. She knew it was something she… Continue reading Getting an audience for 4,000 words of personal reaction
Tracking Progress on Dance and a Recent Heartbreak
While the Socci family is working on multiple book writing projects simultaneously, it makes sense for us to start adding updates with the main topic in our blog post headlines. For today’s update, we will be sharing information on our manuscript in progress: Conflicted with Joy.
Celebrating the Concept of “Short Books”
Amanda had been swishing around the idea of writing a book and publishing it for a long time, sort of like minty mouthwash that makes you feel clean and fresh. It was but a dormant dream. The rest of us also eyed book writing and publication, but didn’t really do much about it.
So many updates! Titles, Descriptions. Book Covers
We are often apt to get frustrated because things are not going as quickly as we hope. The fire to write our second book came up on August 18. Today is now September 19. A full month has passed and barely any writing has been done. It seems there are tons of interruptions all the… Continue reading So many updates! Titles, Descriptions. Book Covers
New Book Writing Project Underway
We can barely believe all that has transpired in the last 2.5 weeks. If you read our blog post from August 20, you would have seen that we decided to change our plans abruptly. We were already in progress on writing our debut book, a faith-based memoir, but then, personal things started happening and those… Continue reading New Book Writing Project Underway