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IWSG December 2013 — Sick and Tired of Thinking This Isn’t Worth It
I stood on my porch and stared out at the snow, felt the dropping temperatures creep around me, saw the icy roads and the cars driving by way too fast, and I felt despair in the pit of my stomach and...
View ArticleThe Fear of Being Small
It’s no secret that compared to most adults, I’m small. I’m 5’2″, on the border between “small boned/medium boned”, I usually weigh between 125 – 135 pounds, and my voice isn’t very loud. In the midst...
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IWSG February 2014 — Are We in an Age of Writing for Other Writers?
It was the late 90′s when I started writing my first novel. It was an era of adult novels, when John Grisham was having his heyday and there was no such as thing as a Young Adult section in the...
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IWSG March 2014 — My Last Post
As I have shifted my feelings for where I belong in the publishing world, and consequently what I want out of my writing, this blog and the way I use social media has shifted as well. Simply put, the...
View ArticleFailure Can Make You Bulletproof
A good online friend of mine recently shared a TED talk with me. It’s a talk by Elizabeth Gilbert, whom I admire greatly because I’ve shared another talk of hers from a few years back that I continue...
View ArticleWhy Writing Things Like Sex and Swear Words are So Taboo When You’re Mormon
So maybe putting sex and swear words in your stories is taboo for anyone in our society, but if you’re Mormon, I think it’s, like, triple taboo. Sex is sacred and saved until marriage, and swearing is...
View ArticleThe Day I Quit Writing
I remember the day I quit writing. It was the day I graduated college with my creative writing degree. A few weeks later I got married. My life completely changed, and in all honesty, I was so burned...
View ArticleGoing Over This One More Time — Nobody Has to Read Your Stuff
I’ve talked about this on my blog several times because it’s an issue for me. Others might relate, I don’t know, but I’ve gone through life with this attitude of entitlement that if I create something,...
View ArticleReading My Reviews Has Paralyzed Me
Although I’m always telling author friends of mine that they shouldn’t read reviews, the truth is that I do read reviews sometimes. I stay the hell away from Goodreads these days, but I didn’t always,...
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I’ve had people come and go in my life. Some of these friendships were fierce and strong. They were relationships that I thought would never, ever fade. I thought I would always be close to these...
View ArticleHow To Be A Perfect Author
In order to be the perfect author, you must sit your butt down in a chair every single day and write, even if it’s only a sentence or two. But not every single day because an author must also live a...
View ArticleGood Pride vs. Bad, Evil, Life-Ruining Pride
Recently, I decided to “stay off Facebook”. I haven’t deleted my account, and I’m not going to, but for me “staying off Facebook” means I’m not interacting much on there or going on there to look at...
View ArticleWhen Your Worst Fear Comes True
I’ve heard this a lot lately: “What was your latest book again?” “If I Forget You.“ “Oh, yeah! I remember now! That one sounded good!” Lowers eyes. “I haven’t read it yet.” Not that I expect anyone in...
View ArticleDropping Off The Face Of The Planet And Surviving
Since I haven’t blogged since, oh, December, I’ve strongly considered quitting blogging altogether. I’ve asked myself, is it productive and satisfying for me anymore? Is it a waste of time? Because it...
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