creative writing
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I have wanted to be a successful writer since I was about fourteen. Throughout my teens and 20’s, I was doing pretty well, or at least putting words down on the page and practicing my craft. Then came the disastrous year of 2024. 2024 and 2025 have been challenges for writing time and other things…
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Here I am a day late. (Darn work schedules!) It’s April which means it’s the start of a new quarter. Out with Quarter One and in with the new! Here’s a reminder of what I said I wanted to do in the first quarter of 2025: Overall Publish more consistently online and build online presence.…
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Well, it’s happened. I woke up to the news this morning that NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) will be no more. They’re shutting down. Part of me hopes this is an April Fools’ prank. Part of me feels like a weight is lifted from my shoulders. After the controversy in 2023, and so many more…
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Here we are in the last week (and last few days!) of November. This month has been quite the creative and productive month with writing and posting on the blog (and other places). I’ve made it through approximately 25% of my novel (I started the plot a little early- more on that later) and I…
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March has been absolutely crazy, with a lot of weird and bad news. It seemed like everything seemed to consipire against me completing my goals and making progress on anything really. The whole month of March was not a good writing month, or even a good school month, and I felt like I was just…