I just got a few more ideas from these beautiful images (found in this tumblr post). That's it, I need to tear myself away from the internet and WRITE.


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I'm convinced that, as a writer, I'm my own worst enemy, my own harshest critic, and my own biggest obstacle. Some days, I don't even want to touch a keyboard, or a pen, or a pencil. I feel that my imagination has gone way ahead of me, as usual, and I'm envisioning a story I don't have the skill or endurance or maturity to write ( Read more... )

I can't seem to do ANYTHING without a phrase, a smell, an image, or a sound prompting a plotbunny. And not a useful plotbunny to help me through a rut in the manuscript I'm already working on--oh, no! It's always a little nagging plotbunny for starting a brand new story, a story with nothing planned or structured, save for that one idea that won't ( Read more... )

I am trying to devote my energy and my muse to my WIP, like a good little writer. Especially since for the last month, my discipline and inspiration has pretty much nose-dived ( Read more... )

Stolen from rhoda_rants.

1. Favourite childhood book?
Little House in the Big Woods. To put it simply, Laura Ingalls Wilder shaped my character growing up. I am only obsessed with all things old-fashioned because I read and re-read her books till they were falling apart. I also think I owe my love of stories and story-telling to her, because I actually made ( Read more... )

Note to self: do not write villains so powerful that you have to kill off a ton of the good guys in order to bring said villains down.


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