How to refill your creative well when your inspiration has run dry.

Querying, submission, and publishing. How to not drown in despair while you wait.

First drafting is the bane of my existence. Here's how I make it through to the other side.

I am slowly and leisurely starting 2024 with a five-day-late New Year blog post. It's fitting enough, being late to write this, as the topic I want to kick the year off with is patience. I discuss patience a little bit in my How I Got My Agent blog post, but having been an agented author for 2+ years now with still no books out on shelves... I figure it's a good time to revisit the concept. As I begin to write this post, I realize that I should preface, reader, with this dis

I cry a lot. I guess you kind of saw that coming per the title. But it's true... like, embarrassingly so. On top of experiencing the same stress, hopelessness, and doubt that all of us writers inevitably face (yay us, am I right?), I am also clinically very, very depressed. Like, tried all the pills, years of therapy and still little-to-no progress, depressed. And I know I'm not the only one. I know that, like me, so many of you also struggle to thrive creatively when everyt

Like so many of us, I started writing at a young age. It started with short stories when I was in primary school. Then, in middle school, the stories grew longer. And then, at 14 years old, I finished my first novel. It was fabulously bad. Like really bad. Imagine for a second that a preteen nerd writes a book. It was exactly as bad as you're thinking it could be. Corny, full of clichés, meaningless dialogue, over-the-top descriptions, and lots of Twilight- inspired teen patr