Returning to My Completed Novel: My Process and How I’m Tackling a Beast

Welcome back, my dear readers, to the Writing My World blog!  As you likely know, I have been very busy working on an exceptionally long blog post analyzing The Last of Us Part 2. Because I am a masochist, and crave large helpings of creative dopamine to my brain on a daily basis, I haveContinue reading “Returning to My Completed Novel: My Process and How I’m Tackling a Beast”

A Review of My 2024: Getting Out of My Comfort Zone, Experimenting, and Why I Feel like This Is the Most Progress I Have Ever Made Writing

2025 is upon us, and it crept up on me quicker than I thought possible. Here we are, already in February and I’m only just now working on this review. But because this is my first year-end review of my writing, I make the rules, and I say February is more than acceptable for thisContinue reading “A Review of My 2024: Getting Out of My Comfort Zone, Experimenting, and Why I Feel like This Is the Most Progress I Have Ever Made Writing”

Quests for Inspiration Episode 4: The Silence of Winter (or) Life Finds a Way

Welcome back my wonderful readers, to the Writing My World blog! It’s time for another Quest For Inspiration, and I couldn’t be more excited! Today we are venturing down our property to the huge rock formations normally flowing with fresh creek water, that now have formed nature’s own art museum in this wintry weather. SoContinue reading “Quests for Inspiration Episode 4: The Silence of Winter (or) Life Finds a Way”

My First Ever New Year’s Resolution, and More!

Welcome back, my dear readers! I hope you had the most exquisite Holiday if you celebrate, and if you don’t, I hope life has been treating you well. I had intended to get back into the blog earlier than mid-January, but I suppose I’m never late, nor am I early. I arrive precisely when IContinue reading “My First Ever New Year’s Resolution, and More!”

Lightning Update #4: The Most Chaotic Time of the Year

Good afternoon my beautiful readers! I’m taking a quick second to update you all, as I went into these past weeks getting a little ahead of myself in terms of thinking I could post allll through the holiday season. Yet here I am with it barely started and I don’t have any posts scheduled, andContinue reading “Lightning Update #4: The Most Chaotic Time of the Year”

Chaotic UnAuthor Confessions…

Welcome back everyone, to the Writing My World blog! I was watching a movie the other day when I got an idea for a post in the same vein as “UnGoth Confessions” which if you don’t know, is where goths make a video and admit to things that aren’t very goth, like secretly loving countryContinue reading “Chaotic UnAuthor Confessions…”

When Humanity Can No Longer Separate Art from the Artist, and the Dark Road We Are Heading Down…

Separating art from the artist is one of the great debates of my time. I’m sure we could also debate where it all started, but I recall it flooding into the mainstream and bringing “normies” into the conversation right around the time JK Rowling started tweeting regularly about additional Harry Potter lore. We can’t reallyContinue reading “When Humanity Can No Longer Separate Art from the Artist, and the Dark Road We Are Heading Down…”

I Shall Have 5 Bodies and Minds with Which to Write 5 Stories at Once: The Existential Dread That Comes from Having a Mind Full of Ideas: Or Bloviating for Dummies

I must come to you with honesty, my dear readers. Honesty that quakes my very soul and leaves me flailing in my sleep with nightmares of monsters. A restless kind of feeling fills me as if I’m being dragged along. Batted awake every time I try to rest my weary mind and forced to continueContinue reading “I Shall Have 5 Bodies and Minds with Which to Write 5 Stories at Once: The Existential Dread That Comes from Having a Mind Full of Ideas: Or Bloviating for Dummies”

How I Keep Myself Writing and Setting Myself up for Success

School was the worst part of my childhood, but I would be remiss if I didn’t admit it was the perfect setup for me to hone my writing. Being forced to sit in a well-lit room filled with notebooks and writing utensils for 8 hours a day meant that for about 5 years of myContinue reading “How I Keep Myself Writing and Setting Myself up for Success”

Lightning Update #2: Where I’ve Been, What I’ve Been Working On, and New Social Media Updates!

Hello beautiful readers! You may be wondering where I’ve been… In truth, I took some time off of social media to take care of my health. But as is usual, I have not been idle outside of the public eye. My first book is officially complete. That’s right, it’s done! Far from being published, butContinue reading “Lightning Update #2: Where I’ve Been, What I’ve Been Working On, and New Social Media Updates!”