Category Archives: Creative Writing

Behind the Scenes Sunday

Let’s take a peek at the cogs inside the machine and talk about why I write and how I write on Behind the Scenes Sunday! Today I’d like to talk about one of the most important parts of being a writer – learning how to accept and grow from critique.

Saturday in the Stacks

Saturday is the perfect time to wander through the stacks (that’s librarian-speak for “bookshelves”) and talk about books and the people who write them. Pull up a comfy chair and settle in, because today I want to chat about a particular ‘tool of the trade’ of both readers and authors alike that has become fairly well-known in the book community: the app/website Goodreads.

Behind the Scenes Sunday

Let’s take a peek at the cogs inside the machine and talk about why I write and how I write on Behind the Scenes Sunday! Today I’d like to talk about one of my writing rituals that I adopted during the pandemic and one that I still return to regularly, especially when I’m in a difficult spot in a project or just when I feel like treating myself: lighting candles while writing.

Behind the Scenes Sunday

Let’s take a peek at the cogs inside the machine and talk about why I write and how I write on Behind the Scenes Sunday! Today I’d like to talk about the extremely important step of editing. You’ve written the book, a gargantuan task in and of itself, but now, now you have to take out your ‘red pen’ and go to work on it, snipping here, tucking there, and shaping it into the wonderful work of art you know it should be.