Young Adult Indie Author
If you’re an indie author, chances are you’ve asked yourself: Am I good enough? Will readers figure out I’m a fraud? Impostor syndrome is something almost every writer experiences at some point. It can be paralyzing, making it difficult to sit down and do the work. But the good news? You can overcome it. Here’s…
Whether you’re a new or seasoned writer, finding the right tools can help boost creativity and streamline your process. Let’s dive in! My Go-To Analog Writing Tools Sometimes, nothing beats the feel of pen and paper. Here are my top three must-haves for brainstorming and planning: 1. Spiral-Bound Notebooks I stock up on these during…
Let’s say you’ve been dabbling with using Tarot cards for your writing and you’ve been pulling one card at a time – great!! Looking at one card can help you gain insight, get you out of your own head, and spark ideas but by adding a second (or even third) card, you can take your…
Why community is important, even if you are between writing projects Writing can be lonely, and most of the time that’s exactly what we like about our chosen career, the solitude of talking to our imaginary friends. But when those friends stop talking to us it’s helpful to have real life people, other writers, around…
Using Tarot cards to come up with ideas is one of my favorite ways to use the cards and it’s a fairly easy process. Decide what you need ideas for Are you writing a YA novel, a series of Science Fiction books, or blog posts? Seriously, this concept can be used for just about any…
Feeling stuck or suffering from Writer’s Block is not fun, but it’s nothing to feel ashamed of. You know what I’m talking about. Someone asks how the book writing is going and you say things are good even though you haven’t technically sat down in days (or months) and actually written or edited anything. You…
I took a break from my manuscript and now I’m ready to dive back in for what I’m hoping will be the fourth and final round of edits. If you read my last blog post you know I had some feedback from my editor, so I sat with that for awhile and then made an…
After weeks of watching protests, listening to people on my Instagram feed, and reading articles and books I have realized how privileged I’ve been to be able to say I’m not political, or I don’t like to discuss politics – or the even more cringe-y worthy one, I hate politics, how boring. I have…
The other day I dropped one of those Question boxes onto my Instagram story so that I could do a big Q&A style blog post, but I only got one real honest-to-goodness question, the rest were spammers and bots. I was a bit disappointed until I realized that the human question that was asked was…
Exercise. It can seem like a dirty word, right? Like a curse. I’ve never been that big on exercise. For example, in gym class as a kid, I would purposely get hit with the dodgeball so I could sit down. I was tall, uncoordinated, and fat. Starting in 2nd grade I was almost always the…