Oh my gosh, you guys. I can’t believe I’m writing this. I just finished the first draft for my YA Horror novel The Seeking! I had to look back over my blog to see when exactly I had started writing this piece, and it was back on September 11th of last year – so about…
As you could probably guess from my last post, moving forward on this novel was a difficult process. I had to squeeze out a few hundred words here and a few more there. Much like Dahlia is in this piece, I felt like I was having to find my way around in the dark. I…
It’s easy to say that forgiveness is the right thing to do when it’s a small problem. Don’t be angry at that child for stealing your candy, just forgive them and share next time. It’s a mentality that works great when you’re a child, but when you get up into the complexities and cruelties of…
I love it when a project starts to near the finish line. I love it even more when all my plot pieces start falling into place and I begin to understand how the story wants to end. You can tell I end my novels in Pantser mode, right? I haven’t been able to be as…
Over the weekend I was fortunate enough to participate in a workshop with fellow authors. It was there I learned something that I had always known deep down in my heart, but it was somehow different hearing it from people I knew and respected. The only way to become a better writer was to write.…