Book Round-Up, Incoming!
I joined Goodreads.com last year and fell in love with the site (guys, it’s about books, just books… books, all the time). When I joined, I either set or Goodreads set a reading goal of 100 books. Last...
View ArticleReblog Wednesday: Join the Eclectic Reader Challenge 2013 with me!
Today, Stephanie over at Misprinted Pages posted a great blog post about diversifying her own reading and I have decided to take up the same mantle. You can read about the Eclectic Reader Challenge...
View ArticleA Series of Series – 2013 Book Round-Up
Welcome to the first installment of my 2013 Book Round-Up! Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson Links: Author Page, Amazon, Goodreads.com, Barnes & Noble My dear friend, Sabrina, fell in love with...
View ArticleGraphic Novels – Book Round-Up
I’d like to start this post off explaining that I’m not a huge fan of graphic novels and comics. I am a visual learner but for some reason, I’ve just never gotten into graphic novels. With that said,...
View Article4 Stand-Alone Novels – Book Round-Up
Last week, I was feeling a bit under the weather so I kind of just chilled. It was nice but I’m sorry for breaking my schedule. I’m back however with my Stand-Alone novel reviews. I want to point out...
View Article4 Classics – Book Round-Up
I’m really bad at schedules sometimes. I’m sorry about that. I promise to do better in the future. Here’s a cute picture of my dogs and my feet to make up for it: OKAY back to my review of some...
View Article5 Abandoned Books – Book Round-Up
Last year (2011), I decided to stop trying to force myself to finish books I really didn’t like. With the advent of the internet, my desire to figure out how things ended is quite easy to appease. Now,...
View ArticleReblog Wednesday: The Basics: So You Want To Write A Novel
Last week, I skipped Reblog Wednesday to catch up on my Book Round-Up but this week I’m back with one writer’s perspective on getting that first novel off the ground. Nat Russo on his blog “The...
View ArticleUpdates on The Abassi Expedition
I haven’t shared a lot lately about my WIP so I thought I’d spend today giving an update. First, I finished my first draft in the middle of December! To celebrate… I printed out the first five chapters...
View ArticleOn Revision: Eliminating Passive Verbs
I like to revise. I really like it. I love to help people revise too. I am also for hire should you want me to help you out. If you don’t want to pay me (why not?), there are lots of little things YOU...
View ArticleReblog Wednesday: Beta Reader: Enquire Within
A few weeks ago, I discussed beta reading on Twitter with AK because finding the right person to read and comment for you is hard. We all have our own strengths and weaknesses that we need to get over...
View Article2013 Eclectic Reader Challenge Update
In December, I reblogged a friend’s article on the Eclectic Reader Challenge. Afterwards, I decided to start doing some research to find the PERFECT books to fit this challenge. I decided to share that...
View ArticleSharing is Caring: Poetry Time!
I thought that I’d share some of my writing this month. In the past, I’ve written a lot of poetry but with my novel taking center stage, I’ve let that go. That’s not so cool. I’ll have to get back on...
View ArticleReblog Wednesday: Older than Hip Hop
Today, I don’t have much to say other than to recommend the music of Weaver Woman at her blog, Still Living on my Feet. Since I shared my poetry on Monday, I thought I’d share hers today. Check out the...
View ArticlePublishing, some other stuff, and a Poem!
I lied. I said I’d share my work this month but then my friend Sabrina started talking to me about helping her get published. SO I did some searching on query letters and then I thought, well where...
View ArticleLiebster Award, wutwut!
My friend who I mention endlessly, Sabrina A Fish, nominated me for Liebster! I didn’t know what it was (she told me yesterday), so I trudged up some mentions of it on the internet. Basically, just by...
View ArticleReblog Wednesday: Liebster Spin-offs!
Monday, I blogged all about myself due to the Liebster award and so far, a couple friends have chimed in so I thought, why not showcase these special people AGAIN! AK’s Liebster post was really fun to...
View ArticleEclectic Reader Challenge Update
In December, my friend Stephanie at Misprinted Pages shared Book’d Out’s Eclectic Reader Challenge with me and I got on the train. I’m really enjoying the progress so far this January as I use it to...
View ArticlePlanning Your Story
Sometimes ideas come to us in the dead of the night and we write down a sentence, a paragraph, an idea. We get names from those characters come to life. But what’s next? What happens after you have a...
View Article5 Strange Writer Habits
1. Sometimes when I’m working on revisions, I isolate sentences in their own document. In this isolation, they can shine or sing or dance however they want or need to. Without the distraction of the...
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