Should we separate ourselves from our art?

I finished my newest manuscript back in May, and I didn't read it again at all. Until now.

When is it time to unfollow your dreams?

The only way to accomplish a dream is to work for it. And you can't work for it if the only effort you put in is coming up with excuses as to why you can't pursue it.

A Writing Conundrum

After completing another manuscript in May, I stepped a little out of my comfort zone.

An Interruption

Do you ever feel that something you've dreamed about your entire life, something that you want more than anything, that you're willing to do whatever it takes for, isn't actually meant for you? Lately, I've been entertaining the notion that perhaps not everybody's dreams are meant to come true. Perhaps wanting it more than anything …

I Won NaNoWriMo (x2)!

NaNoWriMo - noun National Novel Writing Month, in which writers the world over pledge to write 50,000 words of a novel in one month.thirty days of writers everywhere pulling their hair out, ruining their sleep schedules, eating piles of junk food, and drinking their body weight in caffeine, all in the pursuit of a story. …

Is this for me?

Last year, I watched a lecture series on YouTube by Brandon Sanderson, of Mistborn and Stormlight Archives fame. It was really brilliant, and I highly recommend it. There were hundreds of little nuggets o' wisdom in there. But I always come back to one thing he said. A student asked if he'd ever faced any …

You are a writer.

Imposter Syndrome is a real thing. When it takes hold of you, it attempts to convince you that you don’t know what you’re doing, that you’re not really a writer, that everyone else is much more talented than you, that you have no business pretending you’re a writer, that you should just give up. But …

No Accounting for Taste

I’ve read a lot of books this year that I’d been anticipating for a long while. Books that were either released this year, or I’d heard about over and over again through the years. And, I’ll tell you what, for the most part, I’ve been disappointed. My expectations haven’t been met. These books that I …

‘Comparison is the thief of joy.’ – Theodore Roosevelt

As I spend my days working on the plot of my book, and writing chapter outlines in time for a rewrite for NaNoWriMo, this quote keeps running through my mind. Whenever I think of my story, and my characters, and the world I’ve created, it makes me happy. I’m proud of the work I’ve done …

My W-I-P

Since I told you last week about how I got to the point I am today, I thought I’d tell you a bit about my Work in Progress. In dot-point form! It is an epic fantasy, the first in a trilogy.Set in a quasi-Arabian world.A kingdom surrounded by an iron wall, a plague on one side, …