Romance novels have been a point of contention in my life for years. I grew up shunning romance stories. Even my mother shunned them. Romance novels were silly. They didn't have much plot. They always had happy endings. And they were smutty. And smutty was bad. As I mentioned in my previous post, I spent … Continue reading In Defense of Romance
How's everyone's July going? It's been a messy Camp NaNo for me. I haven't been super motivated but I have forced myself into writing sprints with friends and all those lovely people on Youtube who have been creating daily sprint livestreams. I'm also kinda blah on topics right now. I have August. most of September, … Continue reading Moving Writing Prompts
Welcome to July. We've made it this far! I'm proud of us. Today is one of those days that happen when I get busy. When life starts moving forward at a thousand miles an hour. I'm sitting at my desk at work waiting for the day to begin and be trampled with a hundred things … Continue reading Can I Call Myself A Writer?
I love short stories. I love how concise they are. I love how you can just enjoy them in an afternoon. They are easy to recommend them to a friend because it's not a time suck. If they don't like the story it didn't take long and they weren't that invested. But I find them … Continue reading Why Short Stories Are Hard to Write (For Me)
I spent weeks praising my work and saying I was blessed beyond compare, but that changed quickly middle of last week. I got brought into the office and told there wasn't enough work to keep me. I packed up my things (left my pens by accident and I'm still bugged about that) and went on … Continue reading Writer’s Self Care
Welcome to the 5th month of the year! I know things have been a bit messy this year, but I'm going to try to keep things as normal as possible for all us writers out there. (Even though this is late because of how weird my schedule is this week! Sorry everyone!) So this month, … Continue reading Happy Short Story Month
I thought 2020 was going to be my year for writing. In some cases it has been. My job has ramped up their social media writing and I've been writing social media post after social media post (I think I've written nearly 100 posts since quarantine has started and it's frazzled my brain). In other … Continue reading Using Poetry as a Warm Up
This month, the wonderful month of April, is National Poetry Month! I have to be honest. Poetry isn't my favorite method of story telling. I might have been burned by the years of AP English where poetry wasn't fun and required hours of analysis to understand what's happening. But after years of reading on my … Continue reading National Poetry Month
Preface: I know I totally talked about platonic love last week and said that romantic love wasn't everything. That still reigns true, but sometimes you get characters that fall in love. It happens. Second preface: I have been out of the dating game for like 2 years so I don't understand it anymore. Like legit … Continue reading Writing Prompt: Character “Dating Profiles”
This past weekend was full of romance...or at least the concept of romance. For me Valentine's Day was a nice dinner, a movie on netflix, and going to bed early because we're secretly elderly. But I think this week it's important to remember those we love in our lives platonically. We have friends, families, and … Continue reading Platonic Love Prompts
