For those who didn't follow my blog last year, I LOVE HALLOWEEN. Almost as much as I love Christmas. I blogged about it last year and shared some of my costumes over the years. Once again I'm going to reiterate that Halloween is awesome because of all the candy and dressing up… Continue reading Halloween (A Little Early)
Category: Me Rambling
For Boys, For Girls, and For All
I was trying to find an image to add to this post, so I searched, "Children's Books" and the first option that popped up was "for girls". The seventh suggestion was "for boys". Curious, I clicked on the "for girls" to see what popped up. I was bombarded with one color- Pink. Every… Continue reading For Boys, For Girls, and For All
Stories For All
Forgot to write a blog post yesterday as I was busy catching up on my reading. I'm kind of glad I did, because this morning I went online to find out that it is Stories For All week. Stories For All is a movement started by Bloomsbury and Shannon Hale (my favorite… Continue reading Stories For All
Staying Creative (When You’re Busy)
I haven't really been focusing on writing so much lately, and it's really hard on me because I want to stay as creative as I can while I'm busy. If I don't stay creative, then when I find more time to seriously focus, I'm usually stuck in a block. While there are many ways… Continue reading Staying Creative (When You’re Busy)
Banned Books Week 2015!
Apparently it's that time of the year again! Remember my posts (this, this, this, and this) from last year? I had a lot to say. I'll always have a lot to say when it comes to restricting someone's right to read. If you'd like to see the lists of most frequent challenges, you… Continue reading Banned Books Week 2015!
Writing for Young Adults
A while ago I realized I never really finished my series on the LTUE panels I attended. I know that was back in February and now it's September (almost October), but I've had a lot of other things to talk about since then. And now I'm a day behind my schedule and I've… Continue reading Writing for Young Adults
The Middle
I'm hitting that point in the middle of my writing where I usually get bored and pitter off. You know, that almost halfway chapter of Rose where I realized that there wasn't enough to the story and so many things needed to change before I could finish, so I stopped and moved on to… Continue reading The Middle
Better Words
First things first, I have to brag and point out my word count! 48,635 words, and 16 chapters written! Just 18 days ago I was at 28,676 words and 9 chapters. That's almost exactly 20,000 words in 18 days. And I'm planning to get at least 1 more chapter written this week. So yeah,… Continue reading Better Words
And How Does That Make You Feel?
In trying to stumble upon inspiration for this blog post, I found a lot of advice on improving dialogue. I thought about using that, but honestly I would have no idea what advice to give. Unlike description, dialogue is one of those things that comes super naturally to me. I get a lot… Continue reading And How Does That Make You Feel?
Progress Report!
I thought I'd give a brief progress report summarizing how my week went when comparing it to the goals I set. Sunday- A Goal- Write blog post and set to post on Monday. What I actually did- I actually wrote a blog post and posted it on Monday! Yay! Monday- A … Continue reading Progress Report!