Favorite: Authors
Turns out, the best part about having a blog is the ability to talk about literally anything you want. If someone wants to read your...


First Lines
As any writer will tell you, the first line/sentence/paragraph of your book needs to hit the reader just right. If that first little...


Random Shit File
To be honest, I thought about changing the name of this post several times and decided against it. I swear a lot, and to suggest...
Volunteering
In one of my books, there's something called a Volunteer Year. Technically, in this book, children become adults at the age of seventeen...
Life In A Small Town
The other day I kind of had a little surreal moment. I'd just gotten out of my car and was heading into the grocery store where I work....


World Traveler
Okay, so the title is a little misleading. I haven't traveled the world. At least, not all of this one, and not yet. I have, however,...


Currently Working On...
In a previous post, I mentioned that I am usually working on several things at once. All based upon mood or a scene that suddenly pops...
Tropes I Do/Don't Love
This is supposed to be a fun one, so I'm not going to do the extremely hard work of defining a trope, discerning it from a cliche, and...
The Ways I Fail
First of all, I need to declare that I am a procrastination queen. I am the type of person that, even though I have time available, I...


Media Influence
Writers are very subjective beings. If you find one that isn't, I'll be shocked. A lot of our ideas can come to us from anything we...