About Me

I'm Phylicia, an unemployed, disabled person who is interested in writing, reading, drawing, playing video games, watching movies and TV, listening to music, and doing jigsaw puzzles. I attend another writers' group and serve as a volunteer secretary at one in 2026. Throughout high school, college, and the present, I attended a variety of writing clubs. To the best of my ability, I provide feedback on members' entries to help them improve their poetry or stories. In my role as secretary, I add potential new members to the mailing list, notify members of upcoming meetings so they can contribute if they'd like, and explain how the club operates. 

I have always had a passion for those ideas since I was a kid. In Pre-K, I remember reading "The Foot Book" by Dr. Seuss a lot. 

When I was 12, I received a "Write and Illustrate Your Own Book" kit. The company would bind the pages into a story as if it were professionally published. 

My brother taught me to draw when I was about 5 years old, starting with Mickey Mouse; then I used "How to Draw" books and took art classes. I have a lot of patience because I learned pointillism, hatching, and cross-hatching techniques in college. I could do a thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, no matter how big or tiny, in a single day. 

I could do a thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle, regardless of its size. The shortest amount of time was 1 day; the longest was 10 days.

In the year 2010, a writers' group I attended did a compilation of "Poems, Prayers, and Prose." I designed numerous designs for the front and back cover and also wrote for the group and other people.

In college, I wrote a poem as an assignment called "Just Another Friday Night" and submitted it to a contest. It was in a compilation of poems in "Famous Poets of the Heartland." It read like a story about someone in a karaoke bar saying that you don't need to be a good singer to sing karaoke.

I like going to book clubs because I get to hear other people's perspectives and see if they agree or disagree with mine. 

For a while, I ran an art company called "Stipplings For U" where I could create original or non-original drawings (like Marilyn Monroe) and market them. Friends, relatives, and teachers made up the majority of my clients. There weren't many clients, and maintaining the website was too expensive.