Pack Rat Of The Mind

Pack Rat: North American, derogatory - a person who saves unnecessary objects or hoards things. I’ll tell the truth. I have always been a bit of a pack rat. I am embarrassed to think about how many useless items I store around my house. It’s annoying and I have been doing my best to break …

There’s Too Many! How Can I Focus on Only One?!

Good morning! (Morning for me anyway). For the past few weeks, I have been bouncing around with some interesting ideas. I'm so excited to get them started and share them with you once they are completed. I have a few plans for artwork, novels, and graphic novels deep in my brain. Too much to do …

Change YOUR Setting

From time to time authors come across ideas outside things they never thought to write about. These ideas could be amazing but the author walks away because they have no idea how to do it. But no matter how far we try to run from these moments, we know the ideas are engraved into our …

Manga Style or American Comic Style?

While my husband and I were in the process of moving all our junk across several states, I chose to put a pause on my career as an author and as an artist. The pause I took on kept me away for almost two months and it was, no surprise, hard to sit down and …

Organizing My Thoughts x3

After I finished writing The Lyall Pack Series I was trying to figure out what to write next. It's a challenge I am taking on even to this very day. One minute I want to write another fantasy style, the next I'm scheming up a murder mystery, and as of late I've been aiming towards the idea …

I Love It When I Find My Drive

I'm not entirely sure how it happened, but I'm so excited it did. I have taken hold of my urge to write...again. It's funny to think I share these bits and pieces about being an author when I haven't been able to write anything out for my new novel in a long time. I have …

There’s No Excuse To Slack Off

This weekend is going to be a bit of a fun weekend for me, my husband, and our friends. We are all getting together to attend a card tournament featuring the game called Magic: The Gathering. It's fun and I enjoy playing so I'm excited to go watch them all play. I'm not going to play in …

My Steps To Start Writing

The beginning stages of creating a novel are very frustrating for me. These stages can last anywhere from a few days to a few months. What are the steps to start writing? If I'm writing a simple novel, about an average woman with an average life then it doesn't require a lot of prep time …

Completing My Research Before I Write Chapter One

I have mentioned time and time again I am working to write up a murder mystery as my next novel. Oh, has it been a challenge! There are so many facts I must gather before I can even think about typing the story on my computer. I think the hardest part was figuring out all …

10 Tips To Get You Writing

I have created a list of methods I use to keep me pushing through whatever I may be writing. This list might be great for other authors of a novel, a blog post, a short story, an outline, a poem, or even a song! Figure out your goals I bet a lot of people think …