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I should be writing: Or, what I learned from infiltrating a romance novel workshop
If I’m to be honest here, this is actually a workshop on how to kick-start your writing career. But it’s filled with romance and mystery novelists and hosted by a writer who makes her living by writing Christian romance novels. None of this is what I was expecting, but I am enthralled. There are…
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NaNoWriMo Failures Club
Are you a member of the NaNoWriMo Failures Club (meaning, you didn’t reach 50,000 words on your novel)? If so, don’t be too hard on yourself! There’s thousands of us every year, and for all sorts of reasons. Some reasons may seem more important than others, but for the most part, they are all valid.…
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Writing Intentionally Bad Literature
I am the lead singer in a band that primarily performs covers of our favorite weird songs from the 70s to the early 00s. However, we are working on building a catalog of originals. In the past year we have only completed two songs and have the beginnings of two others. I’ve provided absolutely zero…