J. R. FRONTERA, author

Rebel stories for rebel souls...

How "Following Your Dreams", or Doing What You LOVE in Life, is Like Running a Half-Marathon! (but not like running a full marathon, because I've never done that … that would just be crazy!)

A funny thing happened to me yesterday. I was told by a very lovely person (Zenobia Southcombe, to be precise - please do head over and check out her site!) that my "enthusiasm is so catchy"! This was very flattering, for two reasons. 1) I haven't actually felt all that enthusiastic about my life pursuits recently, so I was happy to know I hadn't outwardly let that bring me down all that much and 2) I'd actually been clinging to HER enthusiasm for HER life pursuits the last several days in an ... View Post

500 TWITTER FOLLOWERS!!?!? NUH-UH! … How Twitter is Becoming My Own Favorite Social Media

Well my friends, I told myself when I reached 500 Twitter followers, I would have a party. Today, just about two minutes ago now, I hit that magic number.  I suppose this means I get to have a party!  What is your favorite kind of cake?  Let's have cake, yes?  Lots and lots of cake! Wait, what's that?  Why celebrate 500 followers? Oh. Good question. Well ... because.  500 is halfway to 1000.  500 is a nice, round, even number. 500 sounds cool. 500 is more than 100, or 200, or 300, or 400.  ... View Post

NaNoWriMo BOOT CAMP! Lesson Two: CHARACTERS AND GMCs!

NANOWRIMO PREP LESSON 2! CHARACTERS POOP PLOT, PLOT DOES NOT POOP CHARACTER! SO MAKE THOSE CHARACTERS MEMORABLE! {I will be out of town this following Monday, so wanted to go ahead and repost this now so those of you following along would have the chance to work on this all next week! NOW DO IT!} ... View Post

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