Hello! I'm back. If this post feels off, that's my bad. After *counts on fingers* more than three months away, I'm a little rusty. Still,...

As if writing protagonists weren't hard enough, some types are innately more difficult to write than others (at least in my opinion)....

Almost everyone who consumes YA ravenously knows that, more often than not, teen characters are given awful parents. They're alcoholics...

Have you ever read (or written) a book and felt like the characters were flat? Like everything about them was superficial or...

There are always bits and pieces of ideas for books floating around my mind. Sometimes it's a name, a place, an atmosphere, or something...

Hello. It's been a while since I've updated you on my writing. Actually, a long while. October was the last time I went somewhat in-depth...

It doesn't matter if you're a novice or a pro. There will always be some pertinent questions to consider whenever our brain sparks with...

If this one looks a little weird, it's because it is. It's also exactly what it looks like: a 1980s-set horror novel that includes...

Whether we like it or not, all art is influenced by something we've already seen before. Sometimes writers make conscious choices to...

My very first post on this website was a review of Katrina Leno's You Must Not Miss. Since I LOVED that book, save the ending, I had to...

Hey, you. Yeah, you. Why aren't you writing? What are you doing surfing the internet, signing into every social media account known to...

Sometimes, we're zapped with ideas out of nowhere. We're in the car or the shower. We're staring out the window at work or sweating it...

So, you're thinking of sharing your writing, huh? Maybe you're new at it, or maybe you've been around the block a few times but don't...

A few weeks ago, I finished reading Up from Slavery, the autobiography of educator and former slave, Booker T. Washington. He was about...

You heard me. I did it. I wrote 50,000 words (50,117, to be exact), in twenty-nine days. I finished on Saturday evening while I was...

Surprise! I'm delivering this post to you a day early. 2020 is a weird and rough year for so many of us, but it's important to look back...

Last time you saw me, I had caught back up with my word count despite the relapse in week one and my lack of passion for the project....

It's been just over two weeks since NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) began. Last week my brain had exploded with thousands of...