Have you ever felt stuck? You wake up every single day and nothing is different than the day before? You keep promising yourself change, but nothing changes. That was me. Ideas swirled in abundance and the desire burned, but still, I was plagued with inertia. I want...
When I was sixteen, I penned a promise to myself in my journal. I'll never forget what it feels like to be a teenager. This promise was the product of feeling misunderstood and dismissed by the adults in my life. I don't blame the adults. You see, there's this thing...
It was March of 2014, and I was in the middle of the first round of revisions on the novel I'd written five years earlier. After a long day buried in my own words, I found retreat on the couch, my nose tucked in a book. I read furiously, lost in the world created by a...
At the start of this year, I made a very specific but overly unlikely goal. I want to buy a new car, I said. And I want to pay for it with writing. At the time of that statement, I was blogging regularly but otherwise not actively writing. And to be honest, my...
Something you might not know is that I actually went to college for writing. My aunt gave me a journal for my tenth birthday. It was yellow with little blue flowers on it. I don't know what prompted her to pick that gift for me, but she's always had an odd...
Catch up here & here. I didn't know where to start. I'm a little embarrassed to admit that to you since, you know, I graduated with a degree in Creative Writing. But here's the thing. I don't think there's any right way to start the process. I think you have...