So I'm struggling here.

I don't know how to blog.

I mean, I know how to blog about writerly things - about word counts and agents and revisions and character arcs - but I do that all the time, on this blog and on YA Highway. Sometimes, writerly posts just don't seem like enough. Sometimes there are other things going on in my brain and my heart, and ( Read more... )

Step 1: Daydream all day at work, plotting backstory and conversations between characters and intense scenes of intensity ( Read more... )

So I've run into this problem with my manuscript. Usually when I write, I become blocked when I don't have enough information or I don't fully understand the themes or the characters. But right now, the opposite is true - I have too much of everything ( Read more... )

Short story: Gancanagh


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I do not claim to be some sort of all-knowing guru when it comes to love. In fact, I think it's safe to say that I'm much more of a bumbling idiot than a guru.

But although my experiences with love have been messy and stammering and even painful, I do feel that, because of these experiences, there are certain things I understand about the L word. ( Read more... )

I have a confession to make: I'm not really into bad boys.

I mean, sure - the James Dean types with all their leather and their smirky smiles can get my heart pounding as much as the next girl. But as a general rule, I like nice guys.

The problem with the YA world is that Nice Guys have somehow come to mean Boring Guys.

I do not like to write ( Read more... )

So. Blogging. That thing that I used to do on a semi-regular basis.

I have sucked at this thing recently.

Sorry.

In my defense, I have composed a list of reasons why I have no blogged.

1.) I just moved into an apartment with no internet, and until I get internet, there is really no way to blog unless I employ the help of my minions, and my minions ( Read more... )

 

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