I am far, far too good at forcing myself to do things that I don’t want to do. It’s one of those tendencies that has its roots in my straight A, type A perfectionist student days, and it continues to serve me well now. I’m a better employee because I’m willing to tackle the unpleasant […]
Sometime in the years after college, I began telling other writers that I wasn’t especially good at short story writing. I’m still not sure if I came up with that idea because I hadn’t written that many short stories compared to some of my writer friends, or because I’d been too single-mindedly focused on my
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I got off to a great start this year in terms of meeting the goals that I’d set for myself. For the first time that I can remember, I was ahead of schedule through January and February on everything from wedding planning, to professional and personal editing gigs, to my own writing. The last item
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Man, it feels like a lot longer than two months since I last did any blogging. Despite my best intentions, I just haven’t had the time or inclination to blog nearly as much this year as I did last year. I probably sound like a broken record at this point, but planning a wedding is
Three months ago, I wrote this post detailing my plans for cutting back on my online time in 2018. I’ve been sticking to the strategy I spelled out for you all back in January, and the results have been pretty shocking, so I thought I would share them with you. Disclaimer: I’m a regular, fallible
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Because there’s no way I’m going to finish any more books before the end of the month, here’s a quick rundown of my favorite March reads: 1. Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman by Lindy West My review Five reasons to love it: 1. It’s FUNNY. I can’t remember the last time a purportedly funny
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It’s time for round two of the four star reading round up! I didn’t finish nearly as many books in February as I did in January, but here’s a quick rundown of all of my four star favorites. 1. Starfish by Akemi Dawn Bowman My review Four reasons to love it: 1. The main character,
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I found myself in the strange position last week of researching program requirements and available college courses for the first time since I was a student myself. Even though my research was only for the purposes of my mystery WIP, I couldn’t help feeling nostalgic as I browsed my old university’s online course catalogue. Once
Last year around this time, I published a blog post titled Romance is Hard because I was struggling to draft a story with a main plot based in romance. This year, I’m taking a slightly different approach. In honor of Valentine’s Day, and because I love love stories, even though they’re frequently a pain to
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One of the things I noticed when I was reviewing last year’s blog posts was that I’ve gotten out of the habit of talking about and talking up books on this blog. Don’t get me wrong – I tweet plenty about books and I’m super active on Goodreads, but it still feels strange to not
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