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the Radical Power of Hope
It is easy, in times like these to find ourselves feeling hopeless about the state of the world. Particularly, the state of the future, if there is any future to be had. It is easy to think, “it’s over”, “we’re cooked”. “There is no more hope left.” “It’s the end of the world as we know it”…and I don’t feel so fine. The end of the world seems to be the one thing in the world that is, evidently,…
the Analog Challenge
Did you ever notice that as the world gets more complicated, the desire for nostalgia and “simplicity” becomes more and more prevalent? There comes a point when everything is so confusing and confounding that we find ourselves yearning for simpler times when, to our minds anyway, things just made sense. Of course, there’s not really any such time. I don’t know that things have ever made sense any…
On Hopelessness
2025 has been the eternal year hasn’t it? And the fact it is both already October and only October should tell you quite a bit about just how long this year has felt. Due to… reasons, I’ve dealt a lot with feelings of hopelessness and helplessness. Lack of stable work makes things incredibly stressful, utter exhaustion and insomnia combine to make me irritable and while I have written quite a bit…
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Motivation for Self Doubt
Does anyone care?Does it even matter?Am I ever going to achieve my dreams as a creative? Am I ever going to get published? Is it even worth trying? What if I’m not good enough? Not talented enough? What if I am just mediocre and not as skilled as I think I am? I can’t tell you how many times I’ve woken up plagued with self doubt. Frustrated, and depressed, because something that I worked for,…
Fleshing Out Your Ideas
Part of the process of outlining (really part of the process of writing a story at all), arguably one of the most challenging aspects of the process is fleshing out your ideas. Taking a concept from a one or two sentence premise, and giving it substance is by no means an easy task. Even before you get to actually writing the book itself, you must ask yourself, what is this story really about?…
Womanhood
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What Comes Next after Nano?
I was thirteen or so years old the first time I heard about NaNoWriMo from Writer’s Digest. There was something so exciting about trying to write 50,000 words in 30 days. I had already been writing for a bit at that point but I had never managed to quite write that many words, but that never stopped me from trying. Every year by September I would remember that NaNo was coming up and try to plan…
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Outlines: Your (Real) First Draft? | A Complete Beginner's Guide to Writing (without AI)
There’s an old saying that goes, “a failure to plan is a plan to fail”, I’m not entirely sure how much I agree with this sentiment in terms of writing —but I will say this, having an outline makes the job a hell of a lot easier. In the beginning of my journey as a writer, I was definitely not a plotter. Writing to me was always about the journey, not necessarily the destination. I usually had a…
Blood Queen
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What to do When You Feel Stuck | Motivation for Writers
To say that 2025 has been a mentally taxing year would be something of an understatement. Actually, 2025 has been a mentally taxing decade and that we still have three months left of it is not especially helpful. Looking back thus far on my year it’s hard to believe that this is the same year that I started challenging myself to read more books that I had in recent memory (I’m up to 13 and my…
What's in a Character and where are we anyway? | A Complete Beginner's Guide to Writing (without AI)
Characters Despite what some on the internet would seemingly have you believe, the characters that a writer creates are not in fact direct 1-1 parallels of themselves. Even if the characters are similar to the author and even if they’re somewhat based on the author. This isn’t to say that characters never bear any resemblance to the author, in fact I would argue that most characters are to some…
a little birthday inspired scrapbook piece
Among my newfound love for oil pastels and night photography as well as my love of acrylic blowout art work, I’ve found that there is something about the sort of scrapbook style cut and paste art, using magazines to create something wholly original and different that just speaks to me. Being that yesterday was my 34th bidthday I decied to make a little birthday piece take from different pieces of…
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34 Things I've Learned about Writing (for my 34th Birthday)
Today officially marks my 34th birthday, and I decided that it might be fun to compile 34 things I’ve learned (mostly about writing) in honor of my 34th birthday. Some of these things will be just things I’ve learned generally about life and myself. Much of my 20s (and for that matter much of my teen years) were spent worrying about turning 30. Dreading it, fearing it even, but being in my 30s…
So you have an idea...now what? | A Complete Beginner's Guide to Writing without AI Part II
Ideas are like opinions, it seems like everybody has one. One of the most common arguments that I have heard recently when it comes to the use of genAI in writing (and why people argue it should be acceptable) is the idea that “oh well a real person had to come up with the idea in the first place” and tell it to the computer for it to then spit out this garbage you call writing. Or worse yet…
the Art of Inspiration
Over the course of the last few… days I’ve been feeling kind of uninspired and lacking in motovation. As I might have mentioned enough times on this blog that it’s beginning to feel like I’m bragging at this point, I’m certainly not lacking for ideas. As I wrote yesterday, I’ve been working on an outline of a new book, I actually read a book in a day the other day and started a new one I enjoy a…
Getting Lost in the Weeds
Over the course of my life I have had a great deal of friends who were writers like myself. We all have different styles of writing, different preferred genres, and crucially, different styles of how we planned (or in my case at the time, didn’t) our stories. One of my friends in particular in my youth was an in depth planner. The sort of planner that I found frankly intimidating, and perhaps a…