Hello, people. A few items of business to bring us up-to-date: we went to the beach! I’m still alive, I promise. I’m still a writer even if it doesn’t seem like it. Okay let me be honest here. Writing has not been coming easily. in fact, I haven’t written anything fictional besides the (very very) occasional flash fiction. it’s been hard. I don’t know why I haven’t been able to write. I thought I had gotten over my burnout, but I guess I didn’t. I’m still struggling with it. I’ve been writing more, though. I’m writing a story in a notebook for the first time in a long time,…
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Journaling series no. 1
The day is finally here.* *Well yeah I’m being dramatic but it’s my blog. *grins* I’ve wanted, since last year at least, to write a journaling mini-series. I’ve thought about starting a YouTube channel as well, but we’ll see if that happens. (Probably not. Don’t get your hopes up. And now I’m doing it! I’ve been journaling since I was… six years old, I think? But it’s only been in the past two-three years that I’ve gotten really serious about it. I currently have a regular journal, bullet journal, Bible journal, and a dream journal… and I’m probably leaving something out. ; ) I’ll be…
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to the artist: just begin
I know it’s hard to start. There’s a blank page, a blinking cursor, white empty space that needs to be filled. I know there’s that pressure. You want to do it just right. You’re working towards your goals and you want to succeed this time. Or maybe you haven’t even gotten to the point of starting. Maybe you’re trying to come up with that perfect idea, or the perfect thing to paint, or the words to go into that song you want to write, or the characters for the movie you’re going to make someday. Surely it’ll be easier on the weekend when you have time, right? Maybe…
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Q + A! (sunshine blogger tag + blue sky tag)
So, today I’m doing two tags from ages ago that really should have gotten done sooner but I went on hiatus right after I was tagged for them. :’) I was tagged for the Sunshine Blogger Tag by Lisa, and the Blue Sky Tag by Allison. Lisa tagged me in September, and Allison tagged me in *cringes* August. Thanks, girls! I do love tags, it’s just that I haven’t had much time to do them. They both have summery names, so I guess it’s ironic I’m doing them in the middle of winter. Oh well… But I’m doing them now, so that counts for something?? Here we…
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introducing SNOWSTRIKE // in which I finally talk about my novella!!
So hi, it’s me, and I’M TALKING ABOUT MY NOVELLA. *shock all around* I wrote a novella for the Rooglewood Press Snow White contest and I have been positively DYING* to tell you about it for months and months and yet I am only doing it now after the contest is over because #reasons. I have possibly never been so much in love with an idea and I have certainly never WANTED to tell it to somebody. *YES WE ARE BEING DRAMATIC. I’m excited, okay?? See, if there’s a “secretive writer” stereotype, I BASICALLY AM THAT STEREOTYPE. I don’t tell anyone about anything until it’s all…
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2018 GOALS
I’m sorry I’m so bad at introducing my blog posts. I promise, I am the worst at blog post introductions. One year, and I STILL haven’t gotten the hang of it. Let’s try that again. *swoops in with dark chocolate* HAPPY SATURDAY! Can you believe it’s almost the end of January?* *it’s possibly even MORE unbelievable that I am JUST NOW posting my 2018 goals. #win Since I am so awkward at blog post introductions, why don’t we just begin. writing finish a novel. I’ve never, ever completed a full-length novel (middle grade, YA, or otherwise), and this is something I really want to do this…
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2017 RECAP //
HAPPY NEW YEAR. Let’s all just pretend that Zane isn’t running way behind on her recap post and basically EVERYTHING kay thanks I’m sorry I’ve been gone so long. Now that I’ve submitted my novella to the Rooglewood Press contest*, I’m hoping to get back to a more… regular schedule? The final week before the contest was insane. XP *whaaaaat yes I DID IT, hopefully there’s a blog post coming on this! So here’s my yearly recap post. Hopefully it isn’t too long for you because IT IS A MONSTER OF A POST. A lot of things happened this year. Wow. Writing definitely took me…
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I’m taking a break
So, as you can probably tell by the title, I’m going on hiatus. Hiatus (hahy-ey-tuh s): 1. a break or interruption in the continuity of a work, series, action, etc. Before you panic! This is not permanent. I love blogging and have enough inspiration for three months of posts. I would actually like to blog MORE. But I don’t have time. It’s really hard for me to do this, because I enjoy blogging so much, but with school and everything it’s hard to make time for a blog post every week AND continue writing. (Not to mention I’m deep-cleaning my room, which is incredibly time-consuming. #yay) The real reason I’m taking a…
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L e a k | flash fiction
Ho, wayfarers! It’s September. I can’t even believe that it’s not June anymore and it’s September already… Everything is going so quickly. So, if you couldn’t tell by the title… I’m finally going to do it. I’m posting my writing online. *hides* Yeah… I don’t really do the whole sharing-my-writing-with-other-people thing? I’ve gotten better about it, but this is a serious stretch for me to even be willing to post this. You’re welcome. ; ) So, the story behind this is: I’ve been in a bit of a writing slump all month. BUT, when we were watching a cartoon movie one night, there was…
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Beautiful People #27 | August Edition
Hello, all you lovely people! Guess what time it is. It’s time for Beautiful People again! *cheers* I am once more participating in the link-up hosted by Cait at Paperfury and Sky at Further Up and Further In. Hopefully it will help me break out of the writer’s block I’ve been having this month… writer’s block combined with “do-I-really-have-time-to-write-this-story-and-is-it-even-worth-my-time” block. YES, THAT IS A THING. (That I just made up. Shhh.) I will be doing this with one of my favorite characters (shhh don’t tell my other children) Katie Aline. She’s one of the main characters in my current novel and you can read more about her here. Here’s a brief bio:…
