Most of the writers I know have a writing routine, whether they consciously recognize it or not. Some write only in one specific place in their homes, some have a particular beverage they sip while they get the words down, and others prefer to write only during a particular time of day. Some work off […]
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I get WAY too excited about setting goals for myself. There’s something about making plans–for my writing career, for projects I want to complete, and for self-improvement–that soothes my anxious mind. Although change and I aren’t friends, as I’ve blogged about before, I do find it deeply satisfying to work toward changes of my own
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One year ago today, I blogged about wanting to better manage my online time in 2018. I was tired of feeling as though I never had time to do anything that mattered to me, and although I’d cut out and streamlined as much of the unnecessary minutiae from my life as I could, I’d never
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Happy 2019, everyone! Is anyone else super freaking relieved that 2018 has (finally) been left by the wayside? Seriously, it feels like the last twelve months have spanned twice as much time on the space time continuum, and I could not be more excited for a fresh start. I’ve become a big fan of the
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Credit for everybody’s favorite yearly reading wrap-up goes to Jamie at The Perpetual Page Turner, as per usual. Since you guys have already heard me talk at length about how much I love this bookish survey, why don’t we just jump right in and get started! 2018 Reading Stats Number Of Books You Read: 113Number
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When I made my New Year’s resolutions and my 2018 business plan all the way back in January, I thought I was prepared for how chaotic and anxiety-inducing and stressful this year was going to be. And if you’d asked me at the beginning of 2018 whether I’d appropriately scaled back my expectations for my
It’s probably no surprise that one of the first things I’ve done in the weeks since I got back from my honeymoon is dive headfirst into writing again. I’m in the middle of the planning stages for a new story idea that I could not be more excited about, with a tentative goal of starting
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I never used to be afraid of getting rejected as a writer. That’s not to say I never felt anxious submitting my work, or that I never got jittery anticipating a response to it, or even that I was never disappointed when a rejection letter would inevitably appear. But when it came to nail-biting, stomach-churning
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I’m back! After more than a year and a half of planning, it finally happened . . . I know I griped a fair amount on this blog (and on Twitter, and on my personal Facebook account) about how exhausting and infuriating I found the preparation process, and my opinion still hasn’t changed. But seeing
Over the course of the last five years, I’ve written at length about the two very different stories–Facing the Music, my young adult contemporary issue book, and my new adult mystery–that have consumed so much time. I got the initial idea for Facing the Music all the way back in 2012, and the initial idea