I've just wrapped up Week 2 of my September Submission Challenge, where I challenge myself to submit 30 times in 30 days. I left off Week 1 two submissions ahead of schedule so I could have taken a couple of days off to work on new stuff or revise some old pieces, but there were... Continue Reading →
March Counts as the Start of the Year, Right?
Warning: this blog post gets into the details of my recent health issues which were relating the female reproductive system and the gastrointestinal tract. If you're just here for the writing stuff skip to the paragraph beginning "All this to say." I can't believe it's already nearly the end of March. I feel like I... Continue Reading →
2023 NaNoWriMo Wrap Up
November is over, meaning National Novel Writing Month has concluded. As mentioned in my last post, I hit the word count goal of 50 thousand words on November 16th, so I "won" NaNoWriMo pretty early on. In that post, I wrote about trying to hit 100 thousand words by the end of the month as... Continue Reading →
50 Thousand Words in 16 Days
So, before we get into my NaNoWriMo updates, I want to make a correction. In my last blog post, I mentioned that this was the first time since 2019 that I was participating in NaNo. That wasn't true. I did, in fact, participate in NaNo in 2020. I wrote over 73 thousand words in November... Continue Reading →
NaNoWriMo 2023: The First Seven Days
For the first time since 2019, I'm participating in National Novel Writing Month this year. For those not as immersed in the online writing community as I am, National Novel Writing Month is an annual event in November, where writers challenge themselves to write fifty thousand words of a novel over thirty days. For more... Continue Reading →
Seeking Beta Readers: The Storm Weaver’s Daughters
made with Canva It took a bit longer than I'd hoped, but I have finally finished the polishing pass for The Storm Weaver's Daughters, and it is ready to go to beta readers. For those of you who aren't as deeply immersed in the writing world and its jargon as I am and have no... Continue Reading →
The Storm Weaver’s Daughters Draft 2 is Done(ish)!
After three years of slogging through the revisions on "The Pirate Novel" - as I have referred to it most often - I have finally finished draft two of the novel currently known as The Storm Weaver's Daughters (this is its third title so who know what it'll actually end up being called once all's... Continue Reading →
Results: September Submission Challenge 2022
I did it! Wasn't sure I was going to manage this year between work, travel, and general chaos, but I have once again managed to successfully complete my Short Story Submission Challenge. The Numbers Here are all the numbers, as the above heading would suggest: Total submissions: 31Days skipped: 7Stories/poems submitted: 18New stories written: 3.5New... Continue Reading →
July 2022 Goals
Before we get into what I want to achieve this month, let's look at what I managed to get done in June. You can read my post with my June 2022 Goals here. I wanted to submit one short story a week during June, and I did. It felt a bit weird to get back... Continue Reading →
Publication Announcement: “My Song Too Fierce”
I'm thrilled to announce that my short story "My Song Too Fierce" came out today in Zooscape. This is a twisted fairy tale that I had a lot of fun writing and I'm so glad to finally be able to share it with the world. Thanks so much to my fantastic writing group who helped... Continue Reading →