Reading Time: 3 Mins I’ve been seeing #vss365 pop up on more tweets lately and knew it was a writing prompt of some sorts but wasn’t sure how to participate. I finally had the time yesterday to look into it and I was intrigued at what I found. Kudos and thanks to Natalie Gasper for…
Goal Setting
Reading Time: 3 Mins I started this month off with a very aggressive word count goal of 40 000 words and, with April right around the corner, it is clear to me now I will not be hitting that goal. In fact I won’t come anywhere near it. I could blame the fact that my…
Review: The Annual Migration Of Clouds
Reading Time: 4 Mins. I had been planning yesterday’s day trip for a while and knew that the visits to friends and family I haven’t seen in a long time – including a new baby girl in the family I hadn’t met yet – would be amazing, the eight hour drive time in the car…
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…
When Worlds Collide
Reading Time: 2 Mins I spent the majority of my writing time over the last two days composing a new draft of a query letter for Suddenly Normal. I had been introduced to this agent already and this opportunity to query came with a request for fifty pages, and they did not have to be…
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…
Plantsing
Reading Time: 3 Mins I was a part of a discussion recently that asked, “Are you a Plotter or a Pantser?” Meaning, do you plot out your manuscript meticulously or do you fly by the seat of your pants? Someone introduced me to the term “Plantser” and I feel like, right now anyway, that is…
Meeting Your Characters
Reading Time: 1 Min Yesterday I found myself writing a scene and it took a turn I didn’t expect and I needed a new character that I hadn’t planned for to perform a certain task. My general first rule for characters is to not overwhelm the reader with names to remember (my first completed manuscript…
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…