When I met up with Author, JJ Krzemien, in Portland earlier this month, we talked a lot about getting our writing done and being productive.…
Category: The Writing Life
Depending on how long you’ve been part of my community, you may know that I have a background in Journalism (if you didn’t know that,…
There’s a crazy AF misconception in modern society that feeling good is a temporary state and feeling bad is “normal.” This is total bullshit at…
When I was in middle school, I was OBSESSED with magazines and with taking quizzes in magazines (all the teen mags had ’em!). Around that…
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I used to be the Queen Procrastinating Writer. I claimed writer’s block for years. I used it as an excuse not to do the writing…
It was the Fall of 2009. I was a year into my story planning journey at that point and I still hadn’t published anything. But…
Yesterday my husband and I went to brunch at this badass local diner in Austin that’s open 24 hours and serves gluten-free pancakes and french…
People are constantly reaching out to me to ask questions about my editing service. And I often find that writers are confused as to what…
I spend about a hundred hours a year reading writers’ manuscripts and doing content edits on their stories. I’ve seen it all–stories that ramble on…