Part 1: Goodnight, 2016: My year in reflection Many people have declared 2016 awful and deplorable, and generally everyone seems to be very glad for the arrival of a fresh start. Despite the fact that the idea of a "new year" is entirely arbitrary, and entirely something we human beings fabricated for our own purposes, it does do just that: it serves its purpose. Mentally, the rollover of our arbitrary calendar year always seems to refresh and enliven us. The enthusiasm and gusto everyone has ... View Post
NaNoWriMo 2016: How I Survived the November from Hell
2016 was my 5th consecutive year of participating in National Novel Writing Month. (Wow! Time flies when you're having fun!) Beginning in October, as it has been every year since my first NaNo, I started getting very inspired. I really, really love the fall season for writing. Probably conditioned by my years NaNo-ing, as soon as the pumpkin spice flavor hits everything and anything, my brain and body go into full on "noveling" mode. So, naturally, I was beyond excited for NaNoWriMo Day #1 to ... View Post
11 Things I Wish I’d Learned Earlier about the Writing Life
Recently I've been browsing back through this blog and reading some of my older posts: the posts from way back in the day when I first really started being serious about writing original fiction and publishing. It is totally priceless stuff. This blog has always been for myself most of all. Because I process things by writing about them. I've always been like that. Writing down my experiences cements them in my mind. And the things I've written here over the past four years show a clear ... View Post
Yesterday Marks 4 Years on This Rollercoaster…
What rollercoaster? Trying to get published! Yes, that's right. October the 4th is my official "writing anniversary". Yes, I've been making stories since I could draw rudimentary pictures with crayons. Yes, I wrote my first full length novel at 14. Yes, I wrote fanfiction for 10 years after that. But October 4th, 2012, was the first day of the Writer's Digest online workshop "12 Weeks to Your First Draft". In no way, shape, or form did I have a first draft in 12 weeks, btw. Although I'd ... View Post
It’s a wrap! The Kansas City Comic Con experience…
I'm exhausted. Still. This past weekend at Kansas City Comic Con was my first time ever being a vendor at a convention. It was an incredible experience. Much like my first time as a panelist only a few months ago, I mostly tried to remember to take a step back and soak it all in. Despite coming home at last on Sunday evening feeling like I'd been run over by a truck, the entire weekend was an absolute blast. I looked around at that convention hall with everyone setting up on ... View Post
The Great Unboxing (of the limited edition, convention exclusive DREAMERS paperback!)
Greetings, all! Today, I have a pretty fun short video of my limited edition paperbacks' unboxing! You may have come to the conclusion that I had fallen off the face of our fair planet recently. Thankfully, that is not the case. I have neglected this blog (mostly) purposefully lately for several reasons: July was Camp NaNoWriMo, and I intended to write 20,000 words on a brand spanking new fantasy novel Instead I wrote 3000-ish words on the brand spanking new fantasy novel, and then ... View Post
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