Inktober Pt. 1: The Drawings

Hello hello, everyone!! Well, Inktober is almost over. And I've done every single day!! However, I think it would be a rather long and boring post if I showed you every drawing I've done. So I'm going to just show you some of my favorite drawings from Inktober that I've drawn so far! Hope you …

I’m Doing NaNoWriMo!!

What's up, everyone? I'm really excited about today's post, because I am officially announcing something exciting! Well, I've kinda all ready announced it by the title of this post. 😉 Yep, you guessed it! I'M PARTICIPATING IN NANOWRIMO 2020!! Yeee! I'm so excited! Ever since I started writing seriously I've heard of NaNo, but I've …

Candle: A Haiku, and two more

Hey, everyone! Recently, with both of my WIPs being alpha read, I've been writing a lot of poetry. One style that I've found to be really really fun has been haikus. So here are three haikus for you guys! Enjoy! Candle: A gleam in the dark, a small light of happy hope let’s all be …

How to Title Your Novel

So you're writing a novel. Or maybe you're simply planning your novel. But you can't figure out the right name for it. There could be so many titles! Should you use a short title or a long one? Should it incorporate the made up names you've created or would that be too confusing? How do …

Poem: Lights in the Night

The day is light, warm, bright, friendly, welcoming. Bees gather and swarm. ~ Butterflies flutter through the dappled sunlight. Flowers bloom, fresh and new. ~ It is when the night comes when the joy disappears, and cold seeps in, chills, numbs. ~ The animals scurry away. Fear grips them all, at the disappearance of day. …

Embrace Failure

Failure hurts. You attempt something, and you don't successfully complete what you tried. But I just want to say--that's okay. Failure is one more step to success. You tried, you didn't complete what you tried, which means you can now learn from your failure and try again. Here's a quick secret (which isn't actually even …

Tropes and Cliches: Which to Use in Writing?

Hey, everyone! Today I wanted to talk about the differences between Tropes and Cliches. I feel like some people don't take the time to figure out exactly what these are, and assume that they're the same thing. That is definitely not true. So let's jump right in! What is a Trope? A trope is a …

Poem: Whispers of the Wind

Wind comes rushing down the plain, murmuring in its quiet tone, assuring that there soon comes rain, and to the fields that are sown, ~ that their thirst will be quenched, their roots will be fed, that they will not be wrenched, from the earth, lifeless, dead. ~ The wind continues, rustling the brush, patting …

On Top

I sit at the very top of everything. Well, I suppose not everything. The sky is above me, stretching from horizon to horizon, its vast blue openness clear and freeing. A few clouds float above my head as well, light and fluffy. They must be light, I think, smiling, to be able to drift so …

Awesome Writing Music! Pt. 2

Welcome welcome! I really enjoyed writing last week's post, and there were still a few types of music that I absolutely love listening too while writing that I didn't talk about. So that's what we're doing this week!! While last week's music selection was more for actual writing, such as writing the first drafts of …