I finished!! Hooray! I thought you guys should know that I finished my first draft last Sunday night. Ha! I have been basking on glorious ‘OMG I’m done–for now at least’ glory for a few days now and it feels so good! I am proud of what I’ve written and ready to take it to … More The First Draft
I am so honored to have been able to contribute to the blog. Participating in NaNoWriMo is what truly gave me a jolt to seriously make a commitment to write every day. Shortly after completing Camp NaNoWriMo in July I wrote a post for the NaNoWriMo blog. Check it out here!
Y’all I went to my very first writing conference about two weeks ago and it was AWESOME! For a while now I had been reading on author blogs that mentioned going to a writing conference was important and at times a necessity for the craft. I can definitely agree for sure. Over a year ago … More North Texas SCBWI
When I started plotting this novel I didn’t know what the heck I was doing. All I knew was that I had a story that I wanted to write and I was somehow going to figure out how to do that. I came to the conclusion that I really did need to have some sort … More Writing the final act
Camp NaNowriMo has come to an end and I am happy to report that I completed my goal of writing 20,000 words. It brought me to a total of 100,000 words for my manuscript which is not complete yet as there are 6 chapters left to be written. I am working on my manuscript everyday. … More #CampNaNoWriMo Final Week
Wow you guys week 1 was slow but has picked up since my last post. Here are a few things that I learned during my first week doing #campnanowrimo . You are the vessel from which words will come. Don’t rush to write something just because you want to check it off your to-do list. … More #CampNaNoWriMo Week 2
Camp NanoWriMo has begun y’all! In case you guys are not in the loop check out their website here. I am so excited to be a part of it this year since last year I missed all of the camp virtual write-ins and only caught up to it in September. So this feels like I’m coming to … More #CampNaNoWriMo 2017
You’ll often hear that one must write every day to perfect the craft, write and work on incoming ideas, catch and idea in its momentum. I’m here to tell you that I was pretty doubtful at first; however, I went on ahead and gave it a try, like why not, right? So, every day since … More Write every day they said
I am so glad and excited to say that I am halfway through my manuscript! It’s taken me a little longer nowadays since I started working. Don’t have an entire day to dedicate to writing anymore which has made me a little sad, but c’est la vie. I write every moment I can find during the … More Halfway, 1/2, .5, medium, the middle…Act II…
So let’s talk about the not writing part of writing. Yes, I know that makes little sense to the normal folk, but to the writer folk, you know what I’m talking about. It goes like this: you are writing a story, you’re almost halfway through this story and then suddenly you are rolling in a … More When the ideas keep rolling but your hand is not moving…
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