Every five years I write myself a letter to be read in five years' time. It started my junior year of high school when the guidance counselors asked everyone in my class to write a letter to themselves in six months, one year, and five years. I kept doing it. I thought it was a... Continue Reading →
How You Holding Up?
I never thought I'd be asked that question so many times by so many people, let alone ask it so much. It always seemed invasive to me to ask that, always seemed to hold the expectation of a positive answer. But things are different now. We've all been given blanket approval to say things are... Continue Reading →
2020 Writing Goals
There's a lot I want to do writing-wise this year, In addition to other private-life related goals, but before we get into what I want to do this year, let's look at what I did last year. 2019 in the Rear View 2019 was a good writing year for me. I feel like I was... Continue Reading →
Top Ten Books I Read in 2019 (In No Particular Order)
One of my favorite posts to write last year was Top Ten Books I Read in 2018 (In No Particular Order), and I wanted to write a similar blog for 2019. Although this time, I think I'll also touch on my reading challenge here rather than breaking it out into a separate post like I did... Continue Reading →
November and December in Review
Oh wow, it's the last day of the year/decade. I guess I should talk about how NaNo went and about all the stuff that happened in December before I jump into the year's end wrap up and all that. November For those of you who missed my last two posts about NaNo, I recommend going... Continue Reading →
How I’m Surviving NaNo2019
As I mentioned last post, I'm participating in NaNoWriMo this year. I was hesitant about doing NaNo again, cuz I find it to be a pretty hit or miss experience for me. Some years it's great for knocking out a rough draft and getting a story that's been in my head for a while down... Continue Reading →
Update and NaNo 2019
Hello. After the awesomeness of my September Writing Challenge, October was a bit more chill on the writing side of things. I met with my writing group to go over their feedback on one of my novels, and I've been working on rereading that novel and making my editorial notes before I dive into revisions.... Continue Reading →
September Story Challenge 2019
Okay, phew, I made it. I survived my September Story Challenge without my brains gooing out of my ears and jamming up my keyboard. And, it went better than I anticipated it would, so there's a win. But let's break things down into specifics, shall we? My goal was to make 30 short story submissions... Continue Reading →
September Story Challenge: The First Ten Days
As I stated in my September Goals post, I've decided to dedicate the month of September to writing short stories. Specifically, I plan to submit one short story each day during the month of September. It's been ten days, so how's it going. It's going well, better than I anticipated. It hasn't been easy by... Continue Reading →
Looking Towards September
I had several many goals, both writing and non-writing related during August. Let's see how I did, shall we? How'd I Do, August? Let's start with the writing goals first: I finished the revision pass on my current WIP and created my spreadsheet outline for the draft so that I can visualize the story structure... Continue Reading →