I hit a big milestone recently: I booked an editor! Although the process ended up being smooth and actually pretty
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In my last post, I talked about the thrilling but uncanny experience of having someone else read your story for
Hey there, it’s been a while! This post is my attempt to get myself slowly back into blogging after another

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Recently I did a post on my method of doing character profiles, and it was… kind of a lot. Or

Well, hey there – it’s been a while! Due to life circumstances, I just took an extended and entirely unplanned

Music is a huge part of my writing process. As the daughter of two professional musicians, I grew up in
So, there’s a dumpster fire happening, and as a very long-time participant in Nanowrimo and someone who has promoted the

I realized recently that most of the advice on this blog is geared towards people who’ve been writing for a

I’ve wanted to do a post for a while about my outlining method, but I keep running into a problem.