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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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