100 Days of Writing Prompts – #5
5/100: I heard it through the grapevine.
100 Days of Writing Prompts – #1
1/100: The strange behavior of adult metropolitans during mating season.
The Pursuit of Perfection
A surefire way to never finish your novel. “A plan executed imperfectly now, is better than a plan executed meticulously never.” I’m not sure who said this (Elizabeth Gilbert?), but I think there’s a lot of truth in this quote that relates to writing. I’ve always wanted to write a book, but because I wanted …
Book Reviews: What You Give Is What You Get
I used to think that writing a 300-page novel was the hard part. But have you ever tried getting strangers to buy, read, and review your book? I’m one week into promoting my novel and let me tell you, writing a book is fun—marketing it? Not so much. I have the utmost respect for successful …
Book Release: Up in the Air(port Lounge)
I originally wrote Lumiana between October and December 2013, fresh out of college trying to live it up in California’s Bay Area. As luck would have it, my first boss was a veteran author, one of the coolest people to ever walk the earth, and he gifted me with the best advice to get me started: Sit …
Hemingway on Writing Well
“I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit,” Hemingway confided to F. Scott Fitzgerald in 1934. “I try to put the shit in the wastebasket.” (Credit: Copyblogger, Ernest Hemingway’s Top 5 Tips for Writing Well)
5 Simple Changes to Your Routine That Can Brighten Your Day and Increase Overall Happiness
“It’s a beautiful life… well, you won’t always see it that way.“ In my line of work, it’s hard not to lose faith in humanity, but even if you didn’t choose a career in the environmental and human rights sector, you just need to turn on the TV to be inundated with everything that’s wrong with this …