I know I usually share bits of my story with you or share some helpful tips about writing that I find lying around. Those are still coming as usual, but I just wanted to take today's post to tell you a bit more about me and my hobbies outside the writing world. I don't know… Continue reading A Bit More About Me
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Welcome!
Well, this is it! After weeks of preparing posts, collecting images and media to share, and crafting this blog into something I can be proud of, I am ready to launch it! Well, actually, I'm not sure I'm ready. But as with any endeavor, it is not possible to be fully ready, only ready enough.… Continue reading Welcome!
Funny Tidbits and General Blog Posts
If you have found this post, it is probably because you clicked something looking for more information about me or things I find amusing. Unfortunately, I haven't made any posts on those topics yet. As time goes on, I will post personal or random blog posts in this category. In the meantime, if you have… Continue reading Funny Tidbits and General Blog Posts
Writing with Graphics
When I was writing Slow Motion Whirlwind, I wrote it like a novel. The only exception I made for posting it on wattpad was to shorten the chapters into more "bite-sized" pieces because it was more suitable for the way people read there. When I posted the novel, I left it to read like a… Continue reading Writing with Graphics
Universal vs Personal Experiences
Something I am struggling with when writing A Year in Mondays has been the balance between my personal experiences, the overarching experience of having children, and Julie’s specific story. It is difficult sometimes to separate my experiences (and those of people around me) from those I have read on the internet, for example. So in… Continue reading Universal vs Personal Experiences
A Study in Serialization
As I was finishing the last chapters of my first posted novel, Slow Motion Whirlwind, I was pondering how the book would do on the serialization site that I was posting it on. That’s a story for another post, but while all of that was happening, I was suddenly struck with an idea for a… Continue reading A Study in Serialization
What is Co-Writing?
The “how I got the idea for this story” post is going to be a little different for this story because I didn’t get the idea, Allie did! I was scrolling the writer forums one day and found a post Allie made looking for someone interested in co-writing a cute Christmas story with her. Those… Continue reading What is Co-Writing?
The Cutting Room Floor
So you finished the book you were writing and you gave it some time to rest and then you went back to it and. . . those chapters you loved that developed characters and relationships and made your heart happy. . . yeah, they don't work in your story anymore. I wrote that as though… Continue reading The Cutting Room Floor
My First NaNoWriMo
I admit my first experience with NaNoWriMo was probably not the typical experience. I stumbled into it purely by accident. I think that maybe should be the tagline for Slow Motion Whirlwind. "I stumbled into it by accident." It works for me and it works for Emmeline. But that's literally a whole separate story so… Continue reading My First NaNoWriMo
Finding Inspiration
The idea for Slow Motion Whirlwind was actually brought on by my finding wattpad. A friend of mine showed me the site because he knows I have been attempting to write my novel for several years and love to procrastinate with reading. I went to check it out and really wanted to give writing there… Continue reading Finding Inspiration
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