A Young Writer's Blog
The outline of your story is done! You’ve planned all the chapters! It should be long enough to hit 50,000 words and be officially called a novel. Maybe it will even hit 60 or 70 thousand! You sit down, excited, and start writing. You write and write and write, day after day, working hard, putting … Continue reading What to do When You Can’t Hit 50,000 Words
This is a little different than an average poem. I just felt like writing a sort of "prophecy" poem, you know, the kind you read in beginnings of books and stuff. Anyways, this is what happened. Under shadow of mountain, under shadow of grave, will be built a fountain, a fountain that will save. ~ … Continue reading Poem: Hero’s Rise
Your character is almost done! You’ve figured out their looks, what they like and dislike, their friends, their enemies, how they talk, their sense of humor, but something...feels flat. Well, they might not have a flaw yet. “What?” you might say, “But I don’t want my awesome character to have a flaw!” Well, if you … Continue reading How to Craft a Good Flaw for Your Character
Hey everyone!! You may already know this, but I just wanted to write an official blog post announcement that my novel, A Silence in the Shadows, has been published! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY! It's been nearly 3 years since I started writing it, and now it is done! And something really cool: YOU CAN BUY IT RIGHT NOW!! … Continue reading My Book is Out!
Hello everybody! I was nominated by Lydia to do the Tell the Story Challenge! Rules: Pick an image out of the choices. Write a short story, poem, or whatever that applies to that image. Choose some other bloggers to do the same challenge. Give your nominees a few more images to choose from. This is … Continue reading Tell the Story Challenge
Yep. I've been there too. All those ideas for awesome books and every single one so good that you want to write it right then and there.Actually I still haven't gotten over it but this is beside the point. What I'm saying, is that us writers always have new ideas popping into our heads, and … Continue reading How to Deal With the 1,274 Book Ideas You Have Right Now (And Counting)
Grown on a tree, the leaf does sway. ~ A current of wind comes, and pulls it away. ~ It swirls from the tree. Dances in the air. ~ Spins on the gust, high, light, and fair. ~ It passes a bird, topples over a tree. ~ Surveys a hill, far down to see. ~ … Continue reading Poem: Leaf in the Wind
Hello everybody!! I have been tagged by Allison Grace at allisongracewrites.com to do the book-lover blog tag! Rules: Thank the blogger who nominated you and link back to their blog.Include the Book-Lover Blog Tag graphic and rules in your post.Answer the questions.Nominate at least 5 new bloggers to do the tag. All right! Now to … Continue reading Book Lover Blog Tag
Hello, everybody!! After a lot of hard work, I am proud to present to all of you the official cover for my first novel! I know that a lot of cover reveals are really fancy or you have to do a bunch of things to see it or something like that. Unfortunately, I'm just trying … Continue reading A Silence in the Shadows Cover Reveal + Pre-Order
Well, I couldn't resist. I had to write another bookworm list. Hope you like this one! 😛 Top 5 Proudest Bookworm Moments: 1: When you count the books you own, slowly tallying them up, whispering the numbers off as they rise higher and higher, and when you are done, you realize you have over a … Continue reading Top 5 Proudest Bookworm Moments
