This week I decided to say, "Screw it!" to finishing my first draft. I compiled what I had and converted it to an eBook format for my Kindle, and for the past week, I've been reading it and making notes on what needs to be fixed. And oh, boy, is there A LOT that needs… Continue reading My Book is Now on Kindle! (Sort of…)
Last November, I won NaNoWriMo for the first time in years and years of trying. I walked into the month with just shy of 50k in Dragontouched, the novel I've been working on for way too long, and at the end of November, I wracked up another 50k to round that out to a solid… Continue reading NaNoWriMo Burned Me Out
Over the past two years, I have gone through a massive transformation in my writing process as an author. I've spent years (not gonna lie, probably close to a decade by now) working on the same story--writing and rewriting and cutting words and writing some more. The story is nowhere close to my original idea,… Continue reading Back to My Blogging Roots
Look. We all know what went down in the year 2020. It was a year for the books, and I don't mean for writing them. I still haven't finished the manuscript I've been working on for years now, and I'm not even the slightest bit mad. There were days in 2020--no matter how few-- that… Continue reading 6 Writing Lessons from 2020
Every single writer I’ve ever met or seen online has at one point or another berated themselves for how they’re not writing enough. I know I’ve done my fair share of it. Although I've gotten better at it, it's something I still struggle with, especially this year when I had so much time on my… Continue reading How to Guard Your Creative Energy
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