In my last post, Reflecting on My 2022 Year as a Writer, I outlined how I was doing a deep-dive into the successes and challenges which the previous year brought me. The reason I did this was not only to gain perspective on how my year went, but also to determine where I needed new... Continue Reading →
The new year is officially here. For all my writing friends out there, I’m sure that by now you’ve all defined your goals and outlined your strategies for achieving them. The days and weeks leading up to the big Oh-One-Oh-One-Twenty-Three has been spent reflecting on the previous year in one form or another. I, too,... Continue Reading →
NaNoWriMo is officially here. For those of you who consider yourselves a part of the writing community, you are no doubt intimately familiar with this literary calendar landmark. For those of you who have yet to hear of this wonderful event, NA-tional NO-vel WRI-ting MO-nth happens each November. It is an official event organized by... Continue Reading →
Autumn is my absolute favourite time of year. It is the season for which I wait most eagerly, the change in weather and general atmosphere for which I long from the bottom of my soul. The treetops, so vibrant in the sunlight that they are nearly luminescent, never fail to render me awestruck, and dreams... Continue Reading →
If you’re at all interested in productivity hacks and improvement, then you know that building solid routines which you actually follow is as fundamental as it gets. I certainly do. I am highly interested in ways to sustainably improve my productivity, so naturally I’ve not only heard about the importance of routines, I know firsthand... Continue Reading →
If you are an author on social media today, you may have been led here by the notion that posting on social media is how you’re going to sell your books. If this is the case, then it likely follows that, at some point, you’ve realized social media is not exactly the siren call for... Continue Reading →
Good morning, my friends! I am so excited to share my progress with Beneath the Surface, my current work-in-progress (for a book blurb, click here). This is the second book in the Hanley series, and follows my recently released contemporary romance novel, Autumn in Arborwood. This one was a fun one to write. Not only... Continue Reading →
Writing is a mentally taxing pursuit… as any writer will attest to. It takes a lot of brain energy to invest yourself into the lives of your characters, their joys and their heartaches—not to mention conceptualizing and being the sole architect of their lives and their world in the first place. It is bloody exhausting. ... Continue Reading →
There is no question that it is an exciting time to be a writer. I mean, think about it: with influential social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, Tik Tok, SnapChat and many more, writers are faced with a better opportunity than ever before to generate engagement and visibility. Put another way, no matter... Continue Reading →
It must be some kind of cliché that all writers keep a journal, right? How can it not be? We are in love with the written word and have a bottomless well of ideas. Journaling as one of our creative outlets is only natural. It sounds like a reasonable assumption, but believe it or not,... Continue Reading →
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