I think one of the most difficult questions to answer is when people ask me what I write about after telling them I write. You would think it would be it would be easy given I have a manuscript I am editing, one I put on the side to be fully re…
If you look back in the blog history, not sure why you would, but if you do… you would notice that I didn’t blog for several months. The last post I made was on November 2nd last year. I talked last year about routines and how I would do better. Then…
Sunday night was a fun and busy night with Halloween and the day before NaNoWriMo kickoff. In true procrastination fashion, I waited until damn near the end of the day to pick a project to pursue. I had a few ideas bouncing around on my list that I…
I made a goal to write a blog a week in September and went missing for another two months. It’s been nearly eight weeks since I last pushed a blog. Let’s not make excuses for that shit, life sucks sometimes. Things get messy and life doesn’t always…
My last post was a couple months ago. Stress of work and life got the better of me and I shifted focus for a while. I am shifting back towards my stories and trying to juggle again. I have been writing short stories while working towards reading my…
I’m from a generation where being into video games, card games, table top games, comic books, and so on, and so on, were all things that would earn you a title of nerd or geek for being interested in them. I was rarely bashful of my interests growing…
Being an adult is hard. We can all accept that, right? There are some cool things about being an adult too though. Like the fact that I can make a cake and eat it whenever the hell I want to without getting in trouble. I mean, I might pay for it…
I haven’t posted in a couple weeks, so I figured I would finally hop in and give an update. The final week of April, my partner and toddler both got sick at the same time. I was doing fine and popping some vitamin c and zinc chews to try to avoid the…
One of the major keys to getting myself in the mood for my story is my collection of playlists. I usually start with one song and then continually add to the playlist as I write. As mentioned in my last blog, I am currently working on my first read…
It’s been a couple weeks, I apologize for the missing blog posts. It’s been a hot minute at work learning new things and my mini human has been a hot mess of frustration lately. That aside, I still wanted to come talk about what’s going on in my…
As is natural with most humans, I fell off the wagon in my writing habits and I need to drag myself back up and get my ass back in gear. Of course, to realize how crappy I have been doing, I needed my world to come crashing down around me and my…
For the last several years, I have done the same job at my company. While I have not performed the duties of my job titles much during that time, I was on an ongoing project over that time. I was ready for a change up and late last year, an…
I’m sure I’ve mentioned before that I am a casual gamer in addition to being a writer. It’s actually not that uncommon these days for people to be casual gamers, thanks especially to the birth of the smart phone. It’s beautiful innovation has allowed…
I recently made a series of lists of things I want to learn, my interesting life experiences, things I am good at, and things that interest me. Among these said lists was the desire to begin weight lifting again. I'm a mom to a very energetic and…
I often see friends and acquaintances asking for book recommendations on social media and I also have some friends that share their favorite books amongst ourselves. While writing my last blog, I recalled a conversation I had with someone recently…
A few times I have been asked this over the years. I always thought it was a silly question, but after going into depth with someone about books based on various interests and categories, I realize that I was wrong. So let’s dive into a few of the…
Title: Caraval Author: Stephanie Garber Genre(s): Young Adult, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance Type: Series (trilogy) Quick Summary: The story follows the story of two sisters, Scarlett and Donatella Dragna, who leave their home island and abusive…
I got the good news that my laptop repair is finished, which means they got the parts a few days earlier than expected. The bad news is that the email I received said they “REPLACED FANS AND REINSTALLED OS AND ALL DRIVERS.” A part of me cried a…
Even without a laptop, I am making decent progress on my goals for writing this year. Today is the last day in my tracker for this week and I am at 11,604 of my 14,23 goal. Overall, I need about 3,349 words to break even on my goal for this week…
Small Victory in Writing Town My mission of 750k words in 2021 is off to a slow start that just hit a huge hurdle of losing my laptop. I bought my laptop last year with money I saved up from work bonuses specifically to write my stories…
My partner was discussing book and movie recommendations at work and I chimed in to my partner what I thought on the subject; then I realized this list would make a good start of the year blog post. It's something I know my friends have asked about…
I have been writing for as long as I can remember. When I started writing, it was journaling my day to day life to help with my memory. I still have most of those journals though one was stolen from me in my youth. As I got older, I dabbled in free…
Very first time using my own blog to write on my very own site, very intimidating. Where I came from: I wrote my first novel last year and while I loved the process of finally finishing a project, I didn't love the project. I set that story aside…