Okay we're just over halfway through September so time to see how I'm dong with my self-motivated challenge of doing 30 short story submissions in 30 days. Answer: it's going quite well. It's day 17 and I've submitted 12 stories a total of 19 times. I've received 7 rejections, 3 of which have been personalized.... Continue Reading →
How You Holding Up?
I never thought I'd be asked that question so many times by so many people, let alone ask it so much. It always seemed invasive to me to ask that, always seemed to hold the expectation of a positive answer. But things are different now. We've all been given blanket approval to say things are... Continue Reading →
2020 Writing Goals
There's a lot I want to do writing-wise this year, In addition to other private-life related goals, but before we get into what I want to do this year, let's look at what I did last year. 2019 in the Rear View 2019 was a good writing year for me. I feel like I was... Continue Reading →
Top Ten Books I Read in 2019 (In No Particular Order)
One of my favorite posts to write last year was Top Ten Books I Read in 2018 (In No Particular Order), and I wanted to write a similar blog for 2019. Although this time, I think I'll also touch on my reading challenge here rather than breaking it out into a separate post like I did... Continue Reading →
November and December in Review
Oh wow, it's the last day of the year/decade. I guess I should talk about how NaNo went and about all the stuff that happened in December before I jump into the year's end wrap up and all that. November For those of you who missed my last two posts about NaNo, I recommend going... Continue Reading →
Goals and Accountability
It's been a while since my last accountability post and since it's the start of a new month and I happen to enjoy writing such posts, I might as well start August out right. Now, just because I haven't been posting about my goals, doesn't mean I haven't been setting them. In fact, at the... Continue Reading →
2018 In Review
I've done so much this year that it feels like I should just take next year off. Which is bizarre considering that I've just passed the first anniversary of resigning my full-time job. So what exactly did I do? In January, I finished my part of recording All Stove Up for Miners Creek and then... Continue Reading →
November Postmortem
Welp, it's that time again, where I make one post to write about all the things I did but failed to blog about. November was busy. I went to a con, I organized my desk (this is a huge deal, y'all), I actually finished - like washed, dried, folded, and put away - all my... Continue Reading →
March in Review
At the start of this month, I wrote a post outlining my writing goals. Now that March is over I'd like to examine how well I did considering that I was dealing with a wrist injury and to outline my April goals. So, How'd I Do? 1.) My first priority was completing the first draft of... Continue Reading →
Technical Difficulties
Yesterday, I woke up to an email from VaultPress (the program I use to back up my website) saying they were having trouble connecting to my domain and that I should check that my VaultPress plugin was up-to-date. So I went to log in to my dashboard only to see this screen: Talk about an... Continue Reading →