I spent this morning hunched in front of my laptop, making revision notes on my young adult novel. It wasn’t a bad morning, really. I had coffee. It wasn’t bone melting hot yet. I was productive. But it wasn’t last…
The Write Dream
I deleted the last blog post that I wrote. It was only up for about an hour. But that was long enough. In that hour, it demanded more of my energy than I wanted to give. So, it went away.…
A Case of Writer’s Laryngitis
So, reading is awesome. So is writing. So, naturally, reading about writing is also, well, awesome. I’ve been perusing some of my favourite YA authors’ blogs lately, and know what? I’m jealous of them. I get completely, unquestionably, as green…
The voice in my head wants out.
So, I wrote a book. And I want to write another one. This is a problem. To be technical, I’ve written a draft of a book. It has some issues. I can look at it critically and I know that…
Surrey International Writers’ Conference (of Awesome).
This weekend, I went to work – and it was awesome. No, I didn’t teach this weekend. Instead, I learned. I paid for my learning, however, with work. It was kind of like paying for your meal by washing dishes…
The Final Words.
“This must be how new parents feel,” I mumble to myself as I scrawl yet another set of awkward sounding words onto the lined paper. I didn’t think it would be this hard, naming a novel, but I’m convinced that…
Go ahead. Taunt me.
I can stare at the end of my text for hours, flipping back and forth between Firefox and Word to break the monotony. The bright white of the page taunts me, daring me to fill it with double-spaced lines of…