20,000 on the way to 90,000

For some reason I felt that this was a big moment and I just felt like sharing it. I just surpassed 20,000 words on the second draft of my first novel. My first draft was a mere 50,000 that I completed for nanowrimo, but this time my goal is to extend it to 90,000...

I Don’t Have Time for This

I don’t have time for this. Work was exhausting. I need to rest for a bit. Let me just watch some TV for awhile. I need to make dinner too, and I like to eat with in peace. People are around and I want to hang out with them because I don’t get to see them...

Wall of Inspiration

An unnecessary, unfinished and uninspired project. I ripped up some of my favorite Communication Arts magazines and decided some months ago that it would be awesome to have a wall of inspiration in my office. I plastered the pictures all over the only bare wall in the...

Fearing the Next Step

The most difficult decision my mind will have to make is one that I battle with an untold numerous amount of times a day– the decision to just do it. Whatever it is, the struggle is ever present and is a fight I lose more often than I should. Important and...

From A Powerful Poem Comes Powerful Inspiration

Invictus Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but...

Plot Bunnies Make Excellent Rabbit Stew

I’ve found that the best stories I read give me a good understanding of who the main characters are right off the bat. If I can learn some of the character’s history and acquire a believable sense of their personality within the first couple of chapters,...

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