I had one goal in May: finish and revise a novelette for submission in the first week in June. So, How'd That Go? Short Version: I did it! (cue confetti and party horns 🎊🎊🎊) I finished my novelette, revised it and had it ready to submit several days before the submission window opened (which never... Continue Reading →
Change of Plans
Hi! Hello! It's me! I'm not dead. I've just been busy/trying to ignore reality/trying to figure out what to do in the reality that I'm forced to live in. Since, this is my writing blog, I'll focus on my writing, where I'm at with it and what my plans are moving forward. As much as... Continue Reading →
Submission Challenge 2024: Week 2 Update
I've just wrapped up Week 2 of my September Submission Challenge, where I challenge myself to submit 30 times in 30 days. I left off Week 1 two submissions ahead of schedule so I could have taken a couple of days off to work on new stuff or revise some old pieces, but there were... Continue Reading →
Submission Challenge 2024: Week 1 Update
An update on the first week of my September submission challenge. Check out the link to read the full post.
Why I Won’t Be Participating in NaNoWriMo Again
(note: the above featured image is taken from the NaNoWriMo Statement on Artificial Intelligence and does not reflect my views) I tend not to bring the dramas of the writing and publishing community onto this blog because it's more of my space to talk about my goals and accomplishments. Also, I tend to try to... Continue Reading →
2024 September Submission Challenge
I swear, I am writing some book reviews and a blog post about my trip to the States and the Nebula Conference, they're taking a while to get done because I've actually been writing and having fun with it for the first time since maybe November last year. If you're curious about why I might... Continue Reading →
March Came in Like a Snail and Out Like a Cheetah
I feel as though I was limping through the start of the year (for reasons stated in a recent blog post), and then I hit mid-March, and someone turned on the turbo drive. I suddenly had energy. I could focus. Motivation crashed back into my body. I sat down and I got shit done. Writing... Continue Reading →
March Counts as the Start of the Year, Right?
Warning: this blog post gets into the details of my recent health issues which were relating the female reproductive system and the gastrointestinal tract. If you're just here for the writing stuff skip to the paragraph beginning "All this to say." I can't believe it's already nearly the end of March. I feel like I... Continue Reading →
2023 NaNoWriMo Wrap Up
November is over, meaning National Novel Writing Month has concluded. As mentioned in my last post, I hit the word count goal of 50 thousand words on November 16th, so I "won" NaNoWriMo pretty early on. In that post, I wrote about trying to hit 100 thousand words by the end of the month as... Continue Reading →
50 Thousand Words in 16 Days
So, before we get into my NaNoWriMo updates, I want to make a correction. In my last blog post, I mentioned that this was the first time since 2019 that I was participating in NaNo. That wasn't true. I did, in fact, participate in NaNo in 2020. I wrote over 73 thousand words in November... Continue Reading →