Down the Rabbit Hole

Hey everyone! So just a warning up front this post is going to be a rant. A rant about books that I've been thinking about a lot lately. This post may just end up being me figuring out my train of thought about the whole thing so bare with me. I have been in a bit of a reading slump lately. The last book I actually finished (and probably shouldn't have) was The Real Peter Pan about J.M. Barry. Totally messed up and crazy and disturbing and gave me anxiety for days after I finished reading it. So, if you can't handle child abuse or disturbing true stories in general don't read it. Anyways, my mom, little brothers and I have gotten into the habit of going to the library every Sunday while my brothers are at ultimate Frisbee practice. I love this new "tradition" because I love the library so much. I could live there. Over the past few weeks I've found several new, popular books. I bought the Architect of Song by A. G. Howard (who I love!), I rente...

So I am a huge, huge fan of Fall! I love Fall or Autumn so much! I know some people that love winter, others love summer but I love Fall. So as the first day of Fall was last week I want to give a list of all the reasons Autumn is awesome but first I need to tell you guys something even cooler than Autumn. I am so, so excited! I finished edits for Weapon Icean! Now I just have to go through and check the few scenes (and entire chapter I added!) for grammar, read through it one more time to make sure everything is all good and then I am done! Explanation points all around!!! I can't wait to share Weapon Icean with all of you and I really hope you enjoy it when it comes out! Keep checking back for more updates because they are coming. Also I am still working on Tales of the Lonely. I've hit a bit of a snag but I do still plan on publishing that also so stay tuned for updates on my short story collection as well. And now here are eight reasons why Fall is the best ...

Hi everyone! So this is another short story post. Loosely connected to the post I did last week. Since last week a lot of exciting things have happened! First I wrote three in a half short stories (I'm working on the third) and I'm thinking about sharing them on here like what Mariella Hunt does on her blog. I really enjoy reading her short stories on there and I want to try doing that too. You can find her blog  Here . Also, another very exciting development is that I have all of Weapon Icean back from the editor! All of it! So I'm going through and accepting all the changes she's done through Track Changes (Track Changes is amazing and I love word for having that program). Then I have to go back through and read through the many comments (because I guess there are sort of a lot of plot holes I didn't notice before...) and then implement those comments. After that I plan to go through again and read through it just to make sure everything...

Hey everyone! So I finally got logged back into my blog... it only took me forever but now I'm back and I am going to try my hardest to be more consistent. Writing related blog posts every Wednesday and a book review on Fridays. Or even some TV shows and movie reviews on Fridays too if my reading is going to slow. I just have to give a quick update. Weapon Icean is taking longer than expected to get edited. I'm getting great feedback but... it's still with the editor so while she's busy with Weapon Icean I've been keeping busy with some other projects. My Tales of the Lonely short story collection is going great. Since I suck at grammar I'm going to print it out and have my mom (who's an expert at grammar) check over it. Get a cover and put it on Amazon. In that order but with more details. I also finished my vampire hunter book called Sterling Silver and am working on the second one. I'm really on fire and in love with this project. The world of va...

Hey everyone! So I am still trying to figure out how to get back into my blog using my computer so this is being written on my phone.  A week or so ago I posted a picture of my new writing journal on my Instagram and someone asked what I do with a writing journal. What it is and what it's used for. I thought it was a great question because some people, including new writers, have no idea of the benefits of having a journal devoted to writing related things.  I've always had a writing journals to a certain degree. I didn't start writing in a journal until about a year ago when one of my friends gave me this adorable journal. It was big enough for me to fit lots on the pages but small enough to fit in my purse. I carried that thing everywhere and wrote everything in there .   But before that I awesome journal I scribbled ideas and plot structures and character developments onto whatever I could find. Let's just say I lost quite a few notes that way. So now I have one jour...

Hey everyone! So I planned on writing a post this morning since I got my laptop back! Yay! It had tons of viruses on it and needed to be fixed so it was at Best Buy for a few days.  But now that I have it back I can't seem to log into my Blogger account. And... I may have forgotten the email I used (I have like three emails). I will figure it out though. For now I'm writing this using the Blogger app on my phone that somehow works...  As you can tell I'm not very techy. ;)  So for lack of a better topic and my laptop here is a small writing update:  My editor is amazing and I am beyond excited that she's gotten through so much of Weapon Icean. Today I'm going through several chapters to fix the changes she suggested. She says she'll be done with it by the end of September so yay for that!  I'm on my fourth draft of the vampire hunter/love story book I'm writing and I came up with a name for it! It may not be the official name but I'm really loving it...

For lack of any good blogging ideas I've decided to do a little thing on the chapters I got back from my editor. The post will probably end up being small and not the best I've done but I hope you guys still like and learn from it. :) So a few days ago I got the first two chapters back of Weapon Icean from my editor and I am pretty excited. Two chapters isn't much but I can already see how useful and wonderful and helpful an editor is. She fixed up my grammar (I am one of those writers that is horrible at grammar!) and cleaned up my writing. I can't wait to get the rest back and see what else she's done to make Weapon Icean sparkle. Just through the first two edited chapters I absorbed so much from writing. First of all that having a second pair of eyes really is helpful. For the longest time I didn't think an editor or beta readers would really help. I mean I know what's best for my book right? I'm the one that came up with it, wrote it and loved ...