I just finished the rough draft of my novel! It’s such a bittersweet feeling to write the last line and to go then to write another line then have this feeling of there’s nothing more to say. The sense is almost like having a loss. I don’t really want to say goodbye...
Every one of us comes up to crossroads in our lives. You know those life-defining moments that determines your destiny. Or it maybe a bump in the road that in the long run doesn’t really have that much effect on your life at all, thus proving to be a lot of stress...
We all long for something we don’t have. Currently, I am longing for a normal life. One where all the drama unfolds in my fiction and doesn’t spill forth into my real life. I was once at a national SCBWI conference in LA (society of children’s writing and...
Do you ever long to reinvent yourself? If you were going to do that, who would you become? What kind of life would you create? How would you know it would be better than the one you have? If you were going to reinvent yourself, who would you become? Here are a couple...
So for the writers out there I have a question. Is it easier to write about a problem that you are in the middle of because you still feel the intensity of the suffering? Or is it easier for you to write about it once you are out of the intensity? Does being away from...
I have this novel I have worked on for years. I have completely gutted it and rewrote it at least six times. The novel mattered to me. I cared about it. It owned my heart. I was willing to pay any price to get it right. I rewrote that thing until I couldn’t look at it...
