This blog is not at all what I intended. Rather than being a source of tips and help, this has become an apology blog. Every time I post it's like a new depth of "oops" that I didn't even know was possible. And while I'm confronting my failures publicly, I'm not really being very productive. …
Tag: personal
Yikes
This is awkward. Anybody else here feeling awkward? The last you heard from me, I was in the middle of a writing challenge in which I anticipated writing every day of the month of February. My last post was from day 5 and I did not continue on from there. To put it most simply, …
Writing Challenge Day 1: Crystallize
Water rippled. It shook, shimmered. Then began to change. As if beckoned, it began to curl up. Water climbed the air, twirled. Droplets hardened into fragments, crushed together. The liquid twisted as if drawn out of the water by a string, then tightened along the shape of that thread. Crystals crunched into the outline of …
Magicians, Dragons, and Challenges
Me: says I'm going to blog more regularly Also me: does not do that Hello, friends! Being back at school has already been hectic and the real work has barely begun. That said, time for writing has been very minimal as of late. Still, I'm working on a couple of things and I have …
Happy Words
2016 has been quite a year. Globally, nationally, and personally, we've all experienced our fair share of chaos. For me, this was my first semester of college. I was introduced to a new school in a new city, with no familiar friends or family in the area. Aside from briefly talking to my roommate over …
Personal Update: Hurricane Matthew
Hello, friends. I had been planning on coming home from college over Columbus Day weekend so I could visit my family for my mom's birthday. I was not anticipating having to leave campus in the middle of the week due to an oncoming hurricane. On Wednesday morning, the students received an email saying classes would …
Write Your Instinct
Instinct is one of the most valuable tools a writer has. If you've ever been writing and just felt an unsettling sense of wrongness, it's likely your instinct kicking in to tell you there's something wrong with the story. Sometimes this feeling is so uncomfortable that you feel less motivated to write because of it. …
Personal Writing Update
Hello, friends! I'm starting to realize having a structured plan just might not work for me. I intended to do prompts on Mondays, tips on Wednesdays, and editorial/opinion type things on Fridays. I intend on keeping the prompts just for the sake of having some organization in my life. But aside from that, I …
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