We are blazing through National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)! Unfortunately, I am NOT blazing through my actual manuscript and am, in fact, about 20,000 words away from par. Word crawls are pretty helpful tools to boost word count, so I decided to procrastinate on my novel writing and write a word crawl instead! (Hmm, should…
I Wrote a Guest Blog
Check out my guest post on the Globe Soup blog here: https://www.globesoup.net/writing-blog/how-to-battle-self-doubt-as-a-writer
When My Brain Stops: My Favorite Generators
Sometimes, my brain does not want to cooperate after I’ve asked it for four hundred other names of things: people, places, cults, whatever. Generators are awesome for this exact thing. And maybe you won’t get the perfect idea, but I’ve found that generators are perfect for restarting my brain like one of those pull-to-start chainsaws….
I’ve Been Published!
I’ve had my first flash fiction story accepted for publication! This story was written for the Globe Soup historical fiction competition in 2022, and it was reworked and finessed for submission. On May 23, 2023, my story was posted here on Spillwords.com. It concerns the Great Kanto Earthquake in Japan which occurred on September 1,…
My Reading: 2022 in Review
According to Goodreads (and my own records), I read 44 books in 2022. In my defense, I was working a full time job, teaching a class, and taking two classes in Urban Planning. My Goodreads stats: Average rating I gave: 3.22* Most shelved book I read: Leigh Bardugo’s Shadow and Bone (which wasn’t a surprise)…