I've heard way too many people say the infamous phrase "I want to write a book." But there's only a select few who actually get to celebrate when that finished product arrives at their front door. I never wept so hard when I received the first hard copy of my first book Junkland, the first [...]
I had everything lined up as I approached my second book: the skills, the schedule, the mindset, the story. I thought after writing one book, a second book would be a walk in the park. However, as I came to the end of my three-year project of writing the sequel to Junkland, I began to [...]
Making the Amazon bestseller list seemed like a far off dream for me. I thought I would have to write and complete two book series before I would make top 100. But I found an open window when I started running a Kindle Countdown Deal and realized it could be a possibility. I decided [...]
Have you ever had a surreal moment in life, especially when it comes to pursuing your dream? A moment when the whole world is trying to bring you down, telling you to quit what you are pursuing, but something, or someone, tells you to keep doing it? That maybe someone from above is actually looking [...]
The first draft of The Lost Soul is complete! The Lost Soul is the second book in The Hoarding series and takes place immediately after the events in Junkland, the first book in The Hoarding series. The Lost Soul is an epic fantasy adventure that focuses on Jahrys Grent and other important characters who [...]
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 [...]
Today I took a walk with a friend to the Arlington National Cemetery before writing. I was still shocked that so many leaves were still on the trees. When I went home to New Jersey for Thanksgiving, all the leaves had fallen off. So I was able to take some pretty nice pictures on the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]