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)....

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...

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...

I've been a reading fiend lately, particularly when it comes to darker YA fiction that's been published in the last five or six years....

I'm almost certain it was Wednesday night. Yes, it must have been, because Thursday ended in a deluge of tears that I slipped on as I...

I'm typically the type of person who finishes a book no matter what. I'll slug through the slow ones and cringe at the poorly-written...

My detour down the YA horror path continues, although I would describe Some Kind of Animal as more of a dark, gritty contemporary. I'll...

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

I wanted to kick off one of my first posts of 2021 with a book review, especially since it's been a while! I'm deviating slightly from my...

Stephen King is one of the most popular--if not the most popular--writer of our time. In addition to his impressive catalog of horror...

Developing characters is a different story for every book and every writer. Some characters open up their whole lives to us the second...

Hey. It's been a while Or rather, it's been a long while. I have neither reason nor excuse for taking an (accidental) six-month hiatus...