Carving out time to write

Carving out time to write

Summer is hard. Life is hard. There are so many things distracting us from working, from writing. Personally, I’ve been traveling and readjusting to being back in the US (we’re just here for one month). I’m back in my own apartment and suddenly find so many things I...
Plotting with the Snowflake Method

Plotting with the Snowflake Method

I’ve talked a lot about plotting on this blog. I believe that it’s essential to have some sort of road map to follow when you’re writing. I completely understand that there are people who write by the seat of their pants who have no desire to even know how the book...
SMART Goals

SMART Goals

If you’ve been around the block a few times, as I have, you’ve probably heard of SMART goals. If you haven’t, I’m here to tell you about them today because they are an integral part of getting that writing—or really anything!—done. It might not hurt to read through a...
Five Lessons from Fifteen Years of Publishing

Five Lessons from Fifteen Years of Publishing

Time has a strange way of sneaking up on you. So often you’ll see someone exclaiming on social media, “What? It’s July already? What happened to June, or May, or April for that matter?” For me a similar thing happened except even more extreme. I suddenly realized that...