Reading Time: 2 Mins Another chapter closed and I will be forever grateful for the last fourteen months. We lived in the moment, celebrated life, I was present and I was able to reignite my creative passions that had been dormant for so long. I finished writing a manuscript, my second, and have built a…
Category: Life
The Numbers Game: Coping With Rejection
Reading Time: 6 Mins I received a rejection email last night at 12:38 a.m. for a short story I had submitted to a popular and prestigious magazine. I knew I was swinging for the fences by submitting there. After all, I am an unpublished author and this was also my first real foray into trying…
Weekday Woolgathering – 8/15/22
Reading Time: 3 Mins I am here. I have to tell myself this sometimes because the jobs I am applying to, the freelance gigs I have bid on, the agents I am querying and the publications I have submitted have just not been replying to me. I send myself an email just to make sure…
Weekday Woolgathering – 6/23/22
Reading Time: 3 Mins Subconscious thoughts have been bubbling to the surface today and it’s a strange feeling to stitch them together to try to get a peek inside your own mind. I often choose book quotes and songs to post about that shine a light on how I’m feeling and today they all fell…
Weekday Woolgathering – 6/20/22
Reading Time: 6 Mins You see, I have these thoughts. Creative thoughts. Ideas. Books, stories, characters, all swirling around in competition for space on the blank page in front of me whenever I make the time to sit down and write. Then there are the things that happen to me in real life; those moments…
Tape The Night
Reading Time: 3 Mins. I have had many websites and blogs over the years. When I lived in Japan I created a website and wrote a blog with my then-girlfriend called twocandiansinosaka.com. It chronicled our lives teaching in Japan and actually became a decent resource for those looking to make the move. We made several…
Close To The Tree
Reading Time: 3 Mins I am fully aware that everything I am about to write might be coming from that proud parent place where your child’s potentially mediocre output is elevated to a level that others are just incapable of seeing. I have been guilty of this in the past, as has every parent, ever,…
The Shortest Month: Looking Back
Reading Time: 2 Mins When I look back at where I was only a month ago, I couldn’t be happier with where things are at with my writing today. It was about six weeks ago that I decided to absolutely make a go of my writing and focus on it as if it was a…
The Family Trees
Reading Time: 5 Mins Family Day is complicated for me. I find myself today feeling nostalgic for what family once was to me, angry at what it became and grateful for what it now is. My life with my daughter and fiancée is amazing and I would not change a thing. Things are amicable with…
In Which I Assess How Many Romance Fiction Tropes I Have Personally Experienced
Reading Time: 4 Mins There are many more out there, I’m sure, but using this list of seven tropes as a start, here are some nuggets of my personal experience with each. The Love Triangle There was a girl in University who I was smitten with and my roommate and best friend knew it. They…