Writing While Overwhelmed
How about this title? This is how I feel right now. I am slightly (okay, maybe very) overwhelmed with life at the moment. I like writing. I love writing, but with the start of the semester I have been falling…
What Point of View to Use?
I, you, he, she. The dilemma of which pronouns to use when writing is much, much, more difficult than I anticipated. When I first set out to write my book, I thought it would be in first person. It’s based…
Notes from a Perpetual Procrastinator
This post might as well be called “The Story of My Life.” As I type this (something that I have put off for several days now) I am putting off writing the book as well as writing an essay for…
Comparison: Death to the Writer?
I feel like I’ve heard somewhere that comparison is the death of the artist. If I haven’t heard it somewhere, then apparently I’m more creative than I thought. Comparing oneself to others is detrimental to one’s wellbeing – whether that…
Diving Into the Writing Process
I have been immersed in the writing process for the last few weeks. Not only have I been focusing on the process to take for writing my book, but also on the process for writing effective essays in my summer…
Faith and Writing
“Wherever you lead me, I know you won’t leave me. Wherever you call me, you will make away. Wherever we’re going – I will keep holding to the promise you have made: you will make a way.” Sometimes doubts and…
Finding Motivation to Write
I’ve been trying to develop a plan of some sort for writing my novel since school got out. I was feeling so extremely motivated to get this thing truly started, and subsequently finished, after attending the Pike’s Peak Writers Conference…
Writing Consistently is Key
Last week was the first week that I failed to write a post. I went from a published piece on Thursday to this new piece on Sunday, with nothing in between. Although I certainly have not been on this little…
Risking it All in My Writing
“Risk being seen in all of your glory.” I watched a video recently of a keynote address that Jim Carrey gave several years ago, and in it he said the above quote. “Risk being seen in all of your glory.”…
My Writing Conference Experience
I know it’s been a long time coming, but this is going to (finally) be my post about The Pikes Peak Writers Conference (PPWC) and about my take on conferences in general based on my experience there. PPWC was my…
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