• 5 Things D&D Taught Me about Writing

    Since I was a pimple faced teenager, I have been playing the famous, and sometimes infamous, table top game of Dungeons and Dragons. Now, as a pimple faced twenty-seven-year-old, I have more than a decade of playing, both as a DM and a player. While there are many great reasons to play D&D, the one

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  • Two Lessons Learned from Writing a Book in Two Months

    Exactly fifty-three days ago, I began a novel based on a single idea that had been swirling around in my head for some time. Currently, this novel sits at 320 pages with 110,000 words. While it is still very much a work in progress (the editing stages have only just begun for the first part

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  • Organizing the Chaos

    Organizing the Chaos

    This August I have been trying to compile all the writing I have done for my novels over the past couple of years. What I thought was going to be simply a matter of copying and pasting has turned into a whole scavenger hunt for my work. In order to access it whenever I want,

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  • Back in the Writer’s Seat

    It has been nearly a year since I have posted anything to this blog. With everything that’s happened over the past eighteen months or so and trying to adjust to it has left little room for creative thought. Returning to this blog is not an acknowledgement that things are better now, though in some ways

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  • The Life-Changing Habit of Journaling

    Nearly every morning, I brew a cup of coffee and sit down to write in my journal. Ever since middle school, I have kept a journal to some degree, but one of my resolutions for 2020 was to write in my journal every morning I didn’t have to rush out the door to go somewhere

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  • Look Away, At Least for a Little While

    It goes without saying that a lot of terrible things are going on in our country right now. While we cannot turn a blind eye to these things, I think many people are reaching a point of meltdown in their mental power plants because they are trying to take in and process everything all at

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  • The Art of Book Recommendations

    As a one-on-one teacher, the best part of my job is getting to curate a list of book recommendations for my students based on their interests, reading levels, and books they’ve liked or disliked in the past. While my students will typically only read two or three of these books (the most a student has

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  • Feeling the Spark Again

    Feeling the Spark Again

    It has been well over two month since my last post, and a lot has happened in my life and the world around us since then. With everything going on, I have been feeling completely uninspired to write. During this quarantine, I have even dismantled most of my writer’s platform in the fear of becoming

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  • A White Woman on the Racism of White Women

    If you are an American who keeps up with current events to any sort of capacity, you will have heard all about the protests for Black Lives Matter, George Floyd’s murder by a white cop, and probably even the viral video of Amy Cooper using her white supremacy to terrorize a man who just wanted

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  • The Blurring Flow of Time

    Time is beginning to blur together. I did not realize it had been almost a month since my last blog post until I looked at the dates. Tomorrow is Memorial Day, and it seems that holidays and the change in temperature are the only things helping me to keep track of the flow of time.

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