Getting Back into Blogging

-
So...remember how I said back in October that I was back?

[GIF: Tom Hanks thinking]
Yeah. Me neither.

I've tried to keep up with writing a blog, I really have. But for some reason, I'm just incredibly flighty about it. For a while there, I was posting short stories a few times a week, but then life got in the way, I guess. Well, that's not quite true, but I'm not ready to talk about the specific reasons yet. Maybe sometime in the future.

It's also been tough trying to think of things to write about. Right now, I'm also a team member of Operation Awesome, and I do posts on general writing thoughts, tips, and current events over there. So I don't want to be double-posting things, you know? I want to be able to provide something new and different here than I'm doing over there.

In that spirit, if anyone out there is still listening, in the next few weeks I'm planning to write about my journey from my first time querying to where I am now - which is on the verge of my manuscript going on submissions! My plan is to write about the many stages of the writing journey I went through and what I took away from it. Hopefully that will be useful to someone!

[GIF: "Watch this space"]

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

#AMMConnect Bio, Round 4

-
Image
  Malous and Jonalee Ilsedine, twin heirs to the throne of Kinh, have spent their entire lives together. They're inseparable, and neither of them can imagine life without the other. That perfect future is shattered when their father, King Liazar, announces that he has set up political marriages for both of them. Jonalee's marriage would take her away from Kinh - and from Malous. The twins take matters into their own hands and plot to steal Jonalee's marriage contract. However, when Malous meets his sister's fiance, he falls for the very man who would take his sister away.  When Jonalee discovers her brother's betrayal, she demands that Malous accompany her to watch a sacred water spirit ritual to prove his allegiance to her and their plan. Unfortunately, it's forbidden for anyone to watch the ritual, a key tenet of the covenant all members of the royal family must swear to uphold. So when the twins accidentally disrupt the ritual, the water spirits dem...
Read more

Draft Zero to Writing Hero Chapter VI: NaNoWriMo 2018

-
Image
[Image: My Hermes Baby typewriter with text "Draft Zero to Writing Hero"] Hi fronds! Welcome to the grand tale about my writing journey! I wanted to write about this in all its roller-coaster ups and downs because I had a lot of trouble finding this information when I was getting started in 2016. This is definitely going to span several posts, but I hope my story will help someone else with their own path to publishing. If you'd like to know how this all began, please start with  Chapter I . Chapter VI: NaNoWriMo 2018 With less than a month to go before NaNoWriMo, I was in panic mode. I'm a planner, but a notoriously bad one - usually, I think I'm 80% ready, but the real number is more like...30%. Even so, I usually have my NaNoWriMo idea bouncing around in my mind for a few months before November rolls around; having only three weeks was...well, like being told I suddenly had to write a full novel on a topic I'd barely researched. [GIF:...
Read more

I'm Back! and It's Preptober Time!

-
Hello, fronds. It’s been quite a while. Okay, a really effing long time. A year. But hello, because I am (at least for now) RETURNED. I know the grammar there was wrong. It’s just how the words happen in my head. Anyway, a lot of not-so-fun stuff happened that made me stop writing on my blog for a while. Without going into too many specifics (I’m a fan of my privacy), after last year’s NaNoWriMo, I developed some mental health issues and it took me a long time to get back to the level where I am now. Moving on... I decided to start blogging again because I’m gearing up to start Preptober, during which I’ll be planning for this year’s NaNoWrio project with the 90-Day Novel method. This year’s work is tentatively titled THE JULIE PROJECT, since it’s based on the legendary life of Julie d’Aubigny. If all goes well, this will be my fourth finished manuscript, which is exciting! And I want to keep track of what I’m doing, not only for myself, but in the hopes that this m...
Read more