The Music Spotlight I just posted a new song on SoundCloud! I wrote To Hold You Like Him in September 2023. I knew I was going to see an ex-girlfriend at my friend's wedding in September. I had never seen an ex-girlfriend after a breakup before, and this breakup in particular didn't end very [...]
Book Coaching Spotlight A Songwriting Success Story So turns out last month I went from Book Coaching to Songwriting Coaching. I've been writing songs just for fun for almost 20 years now, writing over 40 songs. It's been my goal to start recording these songs on my own and to upload them [...]
Last month was filled with adventure as I finally got to experience the city of Seattle, surf some narly waves in Waikiki and Turtle Bay in Hawaii, and camp in North Cascades National Park. Now that I'm back in chilly and rainy Anacortes, sun burnt and needing a vacation from the vacation, [...]
I am going a little bit out of the chronological order of Disney films on this one. My next one is supposed to be Fantasia but I couldn't pass up seeing the new live action film, Beauty and the Beast. I saw it with my awesome mother in our local movie theater which I can't [...]
After waiting a few months for Pinocchio to finally come out of the Disney Vault in January, I was finally able to get my hands on it through my local library. This is the second Disney film. It was based on a children's novel titled, "The Adventures of Pinocchio." I honestly cannot remember the [...]
I just finished reading The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. It is the second book in the Kingkiller Chronicles and wow was it a hefty book: 1,107 pages. This took me about three months to read and I am finally done! It is about a mysterious man named Kvothe who is telling his [...]
I am a NaNoWriMo winner! Click on my blog post and read two sample chapters from my first draft of my book I wrote this month. #NaNoWinner2016
WOOOO! I am fricken done and it feels amazing! Victory screech indeed. It has been a long yet fast month of writing and I honestly do not know how I developed 50,000 words in this time period. This took me months to do in my first book. But I am not done yet! I have [...]
This has probably been the hardest moments of writing this month. You think after writing 48,000 words that the final 2,000 would be a breeze but that is soooo wrong. I have finished my story. Everything I have pictured and imagined in my head for the overall story is written down on paper as a [...]
After a long four hour drive back to DC and a Mean Girls movie night with the roommate, I somehow got the motivation to wake up at 8:10 am on a Saturday and go to yoga. After releasing all the toxins and extra turkey still in my body from Thanksgiving I was able to get [...]
Not much progress done today. It's going to be a struggle trying to write these last 9,000 words but I have faith! Hopefully I can get a lot done this weekend....... NaNoWriMo Word Count: 41,031 5 days left......
No progress in writing today. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Thank you to everyone who has been following my blog posts!
Today is my birthday and I finally made it back home to New Jersey! We had a nice family dinner last night to celebrate with all the grandparents and a few cousins. Today I went to the Ramapo reservation to do some hiking in this crazy weather we have been having. To further celebrate, I [...]
One thing I will never do again is write in my car. It was a terrible experience. My brother was nice enough to pick me up on his way home from Virginia Tech. So I took the time in the car to catch up on my writing but didn't get much progress done. My creativity [...]
After a long day of work and cleaning my bike outside before the winter finally hits, I finally got some writing done. I am about two more chapters away from being done with Act 2. Currently, I am writing the climax of my second major turning point of book 2 and also, in my opinion, [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDK9QqIzhwk I thought that song was necessary in this situation. Halfway to 50,000 words! Today I reached 26,120 and it feels fantastic. I went into today's writing session not feeling great. I am still having some trouble filling in the in between spaces before my second major plot point. But I left today's writing session [...]
I hope you enjoyed my new song I posted in my previous blog for Day 11 and I appreciate you taking the time to listen to it. I am not sure what inspired it but I did find the line, "Afternoons on Sunday," very catchy. It almost reminded me a bit of Sunday Morning by [...]
As I am sitting here watching some Seinfeld I will tell you about my awesome progress today with my book. I have finally started what will be Act 2 in my new novel, The Three Witches. It is the second book in The Hoarding Series. I was thrilled to dive back into my world I [...]
Today I have finally finished the first act of book 2 of The Hoarding Series. So what's next? Figuring out what the hell happens in Act 2... I have a general idea of what needs to happen and the major plot points but I am still a bit confused on where to go with a [...]
Tonight marked the end of another intramural soccer season. We got our butts kicked and did not advance in the playoffs. But hey we did better than last season with 1 win, 2 tie games and 4 losses... Maybe I should find a different sport. So with soccer done that means I can fill that [...]
Since it is election day and you are probably huddled around your tv waiting anxiously for the results as I am, I have decided to post the next chapter of my book, Junkland, as a treat! But first a little update on my NaNoWriMo writing progress. Today I have written a pretty lame chapter that will need [...]
For those who are following along and saw my previous post, I hope you enjoyed the first chapter of Junkland. I will continue to release a sample chapter every Sunday. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated! It is a fact that I have outlined more with my second book in my series than I have with my [...]
So tonight on day 6 of NaNoWriMo, I have decided to change things up a bit. On every Sunday of November I will release a sample chapter of my first book of The Hoarding Series called Junkland. What I will be posting is not the final draft! It is as final as I could make [...]
Today, instead of being productive with my writing, I decided to go for a hike with my roommate and a few of his friends. We traveled two hours to Shenandoah to hike a beautiful 7.3 mile trail. It had amazing waterfall look out points and the fall leaves were absolutely stunning in the sunny day. [...]
Today is Friday on Day 4 of NaNoWriMo and I had off from work so I was able to get a jump start on my book! I have successfully filled in that plot hole I was freaking out about from yesterday. It turned out I didn't know my antagonists as much as I thought so [...]
Day 3 of NaNoWriMo has come and gone and now it is time to blog. After that crazy game last night and a huge win by the Cubs, I decided to work from home today to get a few extra hours of sleep! It was well needed and I realized I am still not recovered [...]
Day 2 of NaNoWriMo was a lot more successful than day 1! After being so excited to start my second book of The Hoarding Series, and day 1 being a total disappoint with the writing done, day 2 was definitely a step in the right direction. I have finished a rough rough rough draft of [...]
NaNoWriMo has officially begun. For those of you who don't know, National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) is an annual (November) writing project that brings together professional and amateur writers from all over the world. The overall goal is to write 50,000 words in 30 days. Today is day 1 and I have officially begun writing [...]
So today is the day before NaNoWriMo begins and I will need to write 50,000 words before the end of November. My goal is 1,666 words a day which will be a struggle but I have faith! I will be focusing on my second book of The Hoarding Series which I am looking forward to [...]
So today I just finished the Marine Corps Marathon. I have been training for three months and I am finally done! I thought I would take this moment of not being able to feel my legs to finally start my blog. This blog will discuss my writing experiences as I develop my second novel of [...]