I’m sipping coffee and considering grabbing a handful of vegan marshmallows to munch on while I drink (because gelatin [extracted from the skin, bones, and connective tissues of animals such as cattle, chicken, pigs, and fish] is disgusting). I will probably write this morning. I will definitely continue outlining the new story idea I came up with… Read More Coffee and Marshmallows
I gave myself a challenge Saturday evening. Write 10,000 words for my current work in progress by tonight. Well, I didn’t write 10k words. I wrote 15k! I met my 10k goal a day and a half early and kept going. I have the next chapter worked out in my head already, but I haven’t… Read More Goals
And then I realized it was the end of February and I needed to get my life together. I’ve been reading way too many books lately and not writing nearly enough. Okay, so I don’t actually mind about reading a lot of books. Books are good. I need to finish my flipping work in progress though. Knowing… Read More The End of February
I read an incredibly awful book earlier this week. I had a blog post all lined up in my mind about it (don’t worry, it’s the second part of this post). But then I read a really good book, and now I have more things to say. Judging by the title and cover of the… Read More Wisdom from Good and Bad Books
In honor of wanting to post at least one blog a week in 2017, here is a quick update on my current work in progress. Today I wrote 2,538 words. One chapter. I’ve been writing a chapter at a time, going back to edit it, sending it off to my writing buddy for more edits, reviewing… Read More Current WIP Update
Twitter is being a very big distraction for me today. Yesterday, I was super excited about my work-in-progress. I stayed off social media all day and ended up writing over 4,600 words. Then I had to go and tweet about it this morning. I got distracted by Twitter right away and then had to check all… Read More Twitter
I’ve been binge reading this January. I’ve read nine books so far: seven fantasy, one historical romance, and one romantic suspense (which I originally thought was mystery/suspense). You can check me out on Goodreads and be my friend if you want to know the titles of the books I read. I only plan to mention one of them by name in… Read More What Reading can Teach you about Writing
For a while now, a blur of thoughts have constantly been at the back of my mind. Is what I’m writing creative, original, unique? Is it special? What makes it worthy of being read and liked by others? Is it just another story that anyone could have invented and told? Since I’ve been reading modern… Read More Creativity and Originality
I was nominated for the Mystery Blogger Award by the witty, intelligent, and fun Aubrey Leaman, author of If Mermaids Wore Suspenders. Aubrey is much better at posting interesting and unique things than me, including classical music recommendations for specific books, story mashups that should happen, and quirky thoughts about literary characters like what they would wear… Read More Mystery Blogger Award
On this, the last day of 2016, I thought I would contemplate my writing related stats for the past year. I wrote five manuscripts, took several months off from writing, edited and revised for several months, beta read four manuscripts for three fellow authors, had one of my manuscripts beta read, had two other manuscripts alpha read,… Read More 2016 Writing Stats
