Hello! I started my YouTube Channel this week! I’m very excited about all the content I have planned for you! I decided to switch my focus away from my mini blog style here on my website to chronicling my writing journey in video instead. This will still obviously be the hub – all announcements will …
Hello Gorgeous! I am popping on to give a quick update, my website will be undergoing some big changes this coming weekend, and I’m also launching an Authortube channel on Halloween over on YouTube. It’ll be a fun, lighthearted jaunt along the journey to publishing RynRaven. A behind the scenes if you will. 🙂 More …
October This is THE best month of the year. And this isn’t really going to be a blog in the strictest sense of the word. I’m just here to chit-chat with you and make some announcements. If you’ve been following me on Instagram, you’ll see that I’ve been playing around learning all the features. I’ve …
Several months ago, I came upon some advice – that in order to be a successful self-published author, I would need to put out a new book every three to six months. And for those several months, that’s what I have been working toward. I put out a short in May – to stunningly abysmal …
Don’t edit before the 1st draft is complete. – Now that is some piece of advice I could have used many years ago. As it stands, I’ve developed a nasty habit of editing as I write. In fact, I’ve already re-written and revised those two sentences four times before I got to this one. And …
If you follow me on Instagram you know I recently boxed up RynRaven along with all associated notes, research and scrapped scenes.(And if you don’t, why not? :p ) I have to box up any manuscripts I’m not currently working on, and since Ryn is with my editor, I’m letting her rest in order to …
I recently came across this term- Moonshot. I’d never heard it before (not that that is a testament to it’s popularity, as I’ve only just pulled my head up out of the preverbal sand, only to firmly plant it back in there every so often, but that’s a story for another time) so, I decided …
Today, I am talking about my writing process and the frustration of losing (literally) an entire scene. I’ve done this more times than I would like to admit. You see, I have this process when writing, which I will detail shortly. Because I also have this little (depending on who you ask, some might say, …