short stories Back to the Classroom I’m writing again, and I finally have a plan. It’s been two months since I finished the second draft of my YA novel, and as usual, I was taking a “break” between projects. It was a productive break, as I managed to write a handful of poems, a
endings Finisher's Momentum For me, there are two places in the writing of a novel where I feel true momentum. The first one is at the beginning–when the idea is still shiny and new, and every trip back to the story is a new adventure, and I feel absolutely certain that this
blogging Non-stress Blogging Today was my day to post at the Young Adult Catholics blog again. It’s been almost exactly a year since I began blogging there. I applied as a writer because I’d recently made the commitment to myself for the millionth time that I would seek more opportunities to
NaNoWriMo Tips for Writing Every Day When I was thirteen, I attended a writers’ conference in which an instructor said that, if you wanted to be a “real writer,” you had to write every day. I wanted to be a real writer. Since then, I’ve done pretty well at keeping up a writing routine. Hardly
Uncategorized Why Writing Should Happen First Thing in the Morning Everyone has their own “writing time” that works for them. I used to write at night after my dear room-mate had gone to bed because a) my imagination always felt a little stronger in the dark and b) I used to be a night owl and c) there were usually