Dear Lovelies, A quick look through the WordPress Reader reveals that I'm not the only one struggling to drift off to sleep. I've been up for the past three hours now, alternating between scrolling through Facebook on my phone and staring at my window to catch the first peaks of dawn. My body baffles me... Continue Reading →
Tackling Creative Nonfiction: An Adventure in Self-Discovery
Dear Lovelies, I have recently started a new journey: writing a book. But not just any book, no. This book is excruciatingly personal, which automatically makes it a different kind of painful than my fiction novel I've left on the shelf. This book is unlike anything I ever thought I'd write because it's not dealing... Continue Reading →
True Success for the Creative Writer
“In American culture, success is defended almost solely in monetary terms — we are defined by what we do for a living, and our success is measured by how sumptuous a living we earn. It is an easy jump to assume that if we cannot manage to earn a living through our creative work, then we... Continue Reading →
The Beauty of Writing
Dear Lovelies, I have a small, but simple goal this year: to write every day. That doesn't necessarily mean I'll be posting on here every day (let's be honest, you guys would get sick of that real fast!); it means that I'll write at least one sentence a day, whether on a scrap piece of... Continue Reading →
Random Musings of an Insomniac
I should be asleep, because I have to open the store in 7 hours, but I'm not. There's a cat meowing outside my window and I can't help but think of editing and the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland. I wonder if he would make a tiny hat for the cat? I'd like to... Continue Reading →
