Writing Through the Words of a “First” Draft

It's November 3rd and NaNoWriMo is in full swing and I bet some of you are thinking the same thing as I am: my manuscript sucks!! But does it really? NaNoWriMo is unique in that it's like a zombie run, you have to keep moving at all times to stay ahead of the undead that …

Writing and Adulting at the Same Time

There are some pretty fantastic advantages to being adult. Working a full time day job is not necessarily one of them. I wanted nothing more than to be writing my butt off this morning and get a huge jump on NaNoWriMo (yay!), but I had to be at work at six in the morning (poo!). …

NaNoWriMo 2015 and New Beginnings

Welp! It's that time of the year again. Where hundreds of thousands of authors and aspiring authors put their shoulders to the wheel and beat out fifty thousands in thirty days. And I am proud to be counted among them (the aspiring authors portion at least). I've been trying to launch a successful career in …