Down the Rabbit Hole

 Happy Wednesday!  How did your November go? It's crazy we only have one month left of the year! We're officially in Christmas season and I'm ready for it!  I also just want to say thanks for anyone who still checks up on this blog. I know I have been super inconsistent. Pretty much the only thing I've been posting is wrap ups this year, so thanks to anyone who reads them. I mostly make them for myself. I love having a digital archive of the things I did each month, but I hope others enjoy them too haha  November Writing:  This month has been a lot of jumping around. I got about 40k into my WIPNO story before it lost steam and died out. It felt like a chore to work on it and was draining, so I decided to take a break from it. I still want to write that story one day, I just don't think it was the right time. The idea needs some more time to sit and that's Ok.  I ended up getting my last 10k in for WIPNO through rewriting and editing my pirate story IWWP. I'...

 Happy Tuesday!  Scarlet Phoenix is out today!! This is book 3 in my YA contemporary fantasy action/adventure series The Archive Series!  I'm so excited to finally get to share it with everyone after having it just for myself for the past two years! I wrote this book in 2020, so it's crazy that it's finally out in the world now in 2022. I hope everyone enjoys it and this series as much as I enjoyed writing it!  About Scarlet Phoenix:  Scarlet Phoenix is the fiery and explosive book 3 in The Archive Series. Amaya is now the emerald phantom instead of the emerald’s keeper. Stung by betrayal and caught off guard by new discoveries, Amaya is forced to face secrets that are revealed and mysteries that are unraveled within her new prison. Visions of the past haunt her, and no matter how had she tries, she can’t seem to figure out what they mean. Darren and the others have escaped the Aztec temple… but at a price. They’re forced to leave the crumbled ruins with more qu...

 Happy Wednesday!  How has your October gone? For the first time all year, I'm not surprised that October is coming to an end. It didn't feel like it went too fast or too slow. It was just what I needed and I'm thankful to God for giving me that. Maybe not what I had planned or wanted a month or two ago, but definitely what I needed. God is so good in that. Always giving us what we need even when we don't know what we need. Anyway, I'm just very thankful for this month and all the good things God has given me.  October Writing:  I finally buckled down and finished writing the sequel to The Immortal Circus! My goal at the beginning of the month was to finish it before November and I did that with a few days to spare! As most first drafts do, it needs a lot of work, but I'm really happy with how it turned out and am excited that I finally finished it. That draft took longer than any other draft I've written in a looong time.  I also finalized edits and formatt...

Happy Wednesday! So, I stumbled across this tag/challenge on Instagram through a post @christinesmithauthor was tagged in. I read through her post about it and then through her blog post on it and thought it was such a fun idea!  To preface, a friend of mine and I have decided not to participate in Nanowrimo this year because of their political stances on certain things over the past year. I just don't feel right promoting them or supporting them in anyway. However, I still will be writing 50k in November. We're coming up with a fun challenge (still brainstorming names and ironing out the details. I'll do a post on it once we figure things out).  But I thought this tag would be a fun way to share about my WIP for this year. I'm on the fence about which WIP I'm going to work on, so I've decided I'm going to do two of these for this month's tag. One for each and then in November I'll narrow it down to just one.  This one is for the sequel to a book I w...

Happy Wednesday! I know it's been a minute since I've posted anything on here other than monthly wrap ups. The inspiration and motivation to write has been coming in in trickles instead of waves. But I wrote this for my newsletter and wanted to share.   I was reading in Psalm 103 this morning, using a commentary from Charles Spurgeon. Psalm 103:1-2 says: "Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name. Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all his benefits." In his commentary on the second verse he was talking about how the memory has a way of elevating the negative and squashing the positive. Our minds have a way of focusing on the bad instead of on the good, and how to focus on the good and to remember the good God has done in our lives is worshipful to Him. I'm already aware that I can be a pretty negative or pessimistic person. I try not to be, I try to focus on the good, but it takes more effort than maybe it does for other people who ...

 Happy Wednesday!  How did your August go? Do anything fun? I can't believe August is almost over already! I probably say this every month, but I really do feel like this month went by so quickly. I'm not complaining though. September is almost here, which means fall is almost here! I know the first official day of fall doesn't come till later in September, but to me, September 1st signifies the start of fall. August is the last day of summer to me and September ushers in my very favorite season and my very favorite type of weather. I hope you're August has gone well and that you're looking forward to September too!  August Writing:  Writing this month has been a bit rocky. I started a new project and was super excited about it... until I hit the 30k mark and it sort of fell apart. I lost inspiration and motivation for it. It was just such a struggle to write. So then I decided to work on the sequel to IWWP because I was feeling excited and inspired about that... an...

 Happy Friday!  I have some exciting news! A few years ago I put my YA vampire hunter book up on Wattpad chapter by chapter and it did fairly well. That draft was by no means perfect, but I loved it for what it was and enjoyed sharing it on there for readers.  And now, years later, I'm sharing it on a new platform: Kindle Vella! I've wanted to try this platform out for a while, but just have not had the time or had the right project. Sterling Silver has been edited and revised and pretty much rewritten in a lot of ways. I think it's finally strong enough to stand on its own and is deserving of being published on a platform where people can pay to read it.  About Sterling Silver:  Tabitha Sterling had her life mostly figured out. Go to high school, hang out with friends and hunt vampires at night. Until Sebastian showed up. Sebastian blows into town to warn her about Alistair, old enemy of her family of vampire hunters, who has his gaze set on Tabitha. As Tabitha...