Taina Writes

I am really excited to tell you that I've officially been published!

It was freshman English. Ms. Canzano had assigned a project on a book of our choice to be presented in the medium of our choice. It was ...

Happy New Year! Hopefully you’ve recovered from your New Year’s Eve celebrations, and had a lovely lazy final day of holiday break. I, fo...

Hey look—New Digs! Your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you. JustMyInkblot, the blog, has become Taina Writes! Times they are a changin’, a...

There’s no better way to get me to read a book than to tell me a movie is getting made based on it. A movie co-starring my cousin, Bobby ...

The day my husband told me that I should “become a writer” I got mad at him. A writer wasn’t something you woke up and decided to be. A w...

I wrote today!!! Finally. It’s been months since I’ve even looked at my novel. Since those warm October days I spent sewing Halloween cos...

10, 9… We’re inside The Ancient Order of Hibernians’ local chapter reception facility. The building was once a church, and then a library...

Dear Friends & Family who voted for Donald Trump, First and foremost, I don’t hate you. Yes, I’m angry, hurt, and betrayed. Yes, I’m feel...

Has it been only two weeks since America disappeared through the looking glass? Forgive me. I’m still getting my bearings. Wonderland is ...

I’ve been holding onto this news for almost a year. For the first time anywhere I, T.R. Patmore, will debut a ten minute excerpt of my pl...

A woman’s curse is not her period (Although they really can suck, but we all have gotten excited to see it at least once), it’s that we h...

My creative journey has been really taking off lately. I’m about to reach a milestone in my draft. A ten-minute version of a play I wrote...

I see you there, hovering by the door, uncertain if this letter is for you.  If you heard your name, even if it’s only in the smallest co...

This has been a tumultuous year, despite how optimistic I was when 2015 ended. I’ve experienced the shock, and sudden punch in the soul t...

It happened one insomniac night, as I was browsing Pinterest absently searching for nothing. You guys, those of you who knew about this, ...

In the article, Foyes tells Davies about why she took a year and a half me-ternity leave, which, to be fair was really a click-baitey way...

“2016 is going to be a good year.” I said it in the last hours of last year. So many awful things happened in 2015, that I just knew this...

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I don’t know about you, but 2015 really sucked for me. There were some incredible moments, like traveling to Jamaica for my first vacatio...