After one of the most tumultous, infuriating weeks of the year, I finally have something to celebrate. I hit 250 days of writing!! To end this day on a bang, I managed to put 771 new words into DK:TL. It's still grossly over-written. I mean, it's almost at 119k words. I expect it to reach 120k before I can end it. Which, at this point, I'm fine with. I've marked chapters that need cutting and rewriting, so editing will be much easier. The only issue, is that I'm writing witho

It is a fact universally acknowledged that your favorite quotes reveal a lot about yourself. Those soft, poetic lines that reveal your dreams. The more poignant sentiments that show your flavor of cynicism. Even the random bits of dialogue that will make sense to no one else, but tell everyone what your brand of humor is. They all intertwine in the tapestry of your personality. And it's beautiful. As a reader, I of course have a ton of quotes by favorite authors. (As a human

So, we all know how stories start, right? Something–a song, a book, a movie, a phrase, whathaveyou–triggers a scene. A thought. A 'what if?' question. And then you're off. There are people in your brain, voices in your head, and scenes amassing, begging to be written. So you write. Just a snippet here. A line there. Slowly piecing things together until you're sure you have enough to start with. Then you're off again to construct a whole story. I imagine that for short stories