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”
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When People Ask Me to Describe My Book and Protagonist in One Sentence, and the Curse of Self Promotion
You made it to the party. You’ve left your crypt for the first time in a month. You emerge pale and frizzy-haired, socially obligated to perform your routine human interaction at least once before you return to the safety of the dark hole you crave to continue writing. They don’t know. They don’t care. HowContinue reading “When People Ask Me to Describe My Book and Protagonist in One Sentence, and the Curse of Self Promotion”
My Break Free from Self Insert Characters and Fanfiction
We were all self-absorbed teenagers once, and it is likely if you’ve written fanfiction, at least one of them featured you at the center. After all, didn’t we all sit around wishing we could join our favorite characters in their world? I think for some of us, a lot of the reason we got hookedContinue reading “My Break Free from Self Insert Characters and Fanfiction”
Get to Know Me
The Beginning It’s the early 2000s, and I’m sitting at my desk in 2nd grade listening to my teacher tell us our assignment is to write a story. Little did I know, this would be the start of something big. I can still remember the story I churned onto the page to this day, evenContinue reading “Get to Know Me”
Writing My World 