“Anyone can love a thing ‘because’. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something ‘despite’: to know the flaws and love…
So… I told myself I wouldn’t do NaNoWriMo this year… And then 9pm of October 31st happened. I thought about a novel I began in…
I’ve hesitated to write and post this, because 2019 was not a great writing year. I wrote 51,173 words, which is the lowest for nearly…
It’s mid-July. I have officially written a total of 1,000 words this YEAR. And this weekend, I finally feel ready to step back into storycraft….
In May, I received my current WIP back from an alpha reader. I flit between the term alpha and beta reader, because there isn’t a…
When I read a story, I am immersed within a different world, as a new person, exploring a problem I want to be solved. I…
In November 2016, I became involved in the local NaNoWriMo community. I attended local write-ins, and joined a Discord server to chat with others in…
Today we have a guest post from Ellie Di Julio; author of the Forgotten Relics series, about how she picked point of view characters in her…
“Winter fights valiantly to hold the land. The earth and the sky are grey, leaden, and heavy with the cold. But here and there, scattered like jewels in the…
Farewell, 2020. Part of me want’s to leave that there and just jump to 2021, but 2020 was a big year for my personal development…
Quarter Four has arrived. 2020 is close to over. My first two reviews can be found here (part 1) and here (part 2). 8 down,…
Well. The last few years have been… interesting. I haven’t been consistent here since Jan 2019. I haven’t been a WRITER (in my own eyes)…
Quarter Two of 2020 was, at least in my reading list, looking a tiny bit more hopeful. Then the world happened, and turns out Quarters…
It’s Friday evening. September is already in full-swing and I still haven’t quite processed this year so far. But one thing which has shifted in…
I spoke in my last post about how I haven’t written fiction since April. I also began scrap-booking in that first week of April: in…
I haven’t written any fiction since April 6th. I know I’m not alone in having my routines shaken up by a certain world-wide event, but…