Writer’s Blog

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway: A Pep Talk

We all start at zero. Whether it's a new career, a new skill, or writing your book's very first draft.⁣⁣…

3 years ago

4 Ways to Normalize and Bounce Back from Failure

We've probably all heard by now that it took Thomas Edison, inventor of such awesome things as the light bulb, thousands of…

3 years ago

100 Writing Prompts for #The100DayProject

Last week, one of my favorite people—visual designer and illustrator Colleen O'Connor—challenged me to create one writing prompt a day…

3 years ago

How to Build Your Readership Before You Finish Writing Your Book

It’s no secret that my biggest mistake as an author has been to wait to build my readership until after…

3 years ago

My favorite first draft advice + 3 mistakes aspiring authors make when writing their first book draft

Do you know what most aspiring authors struggle with when they start writing their first draft? Over the past two…

4 years ago

12 Days of Freebies for Aspiring Authors

Christmas is a time for giving  and I have an amazing gift for you! Along with some of my favorite indie…

4 years ago

The Pursuit of Perfection

A surefire way to never finish your novel. "A plan executed imperfectly now, is better than a plan executed meticulously…

7 years ago

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…

7 years ago

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…

7 years ago

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…

7 years ago

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