by Kayla Norris | Dec 31, 2018 | The Creative Heart
New Year’s has this annoying habit of getting me all nostalgic and thoughtful about the year that’s just passed. EVERY year. Sometimes I just write a Facebook status, sometimes I post my top photos, other times I script a long blog post on what I’ve...
by Kayla Norris | Sep 1, 2018 | High School, The Creative Heart, University
Everyone has a way to creatively express their heart (whether they know it or not) and everyone needs somewhere to express it. This is a story of finding that somewhere. I’ve been a writer ever since I first awkwardly held a pencil and scribbled the letter E...
by Kayla Norris | Jun 21, 2018 | The Creative Heart
1. Target your audience. No, I don’t mean a Target run with a group of friends (but that definitely happened!). I’ve been blogging for ten years, but rarely thought of who I wrote to. But as we were encouraged to do this, I remembered my most-shared posts have always...
by Kayla Norris | Jun 10, 2018 | The Creative Heart
Scroll just a few posts down, and you’ll see I’m not experienced in the art of keeping blog post short. I’m a story-teller. And as any story-teller knows, length is your friend and enemy. A long story can bring your audience from “cool story, bro” to tears...
by Kayla Norris | Jun 1, 2018 | The Creative Heart
“Whyyy am I writer?” I moaned in a text my fellow classmate, Amanda. The day before I’d only written two pages of my short story in two hours, and didn’t know where I was going from there. After a four hour shift in the kitchen, I smelled like grease and garlic. How...
by Kayla Norris | Mar 21, 2018 | High School, The Creative Heart
My teacher is saying something. She’s pointing emphatically at the whiteboard– at least I can see it in my peripherals. My textbook is open, my fingers strategically placed on the last page we had for homework. For all intensive purposes, I’m the most attentive...
