When I was a sophomore in high school, I was in a production of Cinderella (as Cinderella, naturally) and it was the first time I was really starting to feel the struggle of balancing everything I want to do between extracurriculars and theatre and social life and...
It is time, yet again, to set up some goals for the year ahead and I am posting them on my blog as usual to make it real and help make me feel accountable. So let's just dive into what I'm striving for this year and why. Word Count Goal: 350,000 Regular readers right...
As part of a larger effort to organize my life and make better use of what little writing time I have these days, I decided to do up a massive Project Status Report of everything I’m working on and where it is now. Couple of things before we start this. I have WAY too...
As 2017 draws to a close, let's take a look at how my year in writing went. I'm going to try to keep this short. I'll fail, mind you, but that effort surely counts for something, no? For more details on any of this, you can see my whole writing year month by month...
What's ironic about the fact that this is the latest I've ever posted a monthly recap is that I actually wrote most of this post in mid-November and I'm just having such a busy December that I'm only just now having the chance to post it. (Christmas + my kid's...
There are so many people on my social feeds right now talking about how much they miss writing now that NaNoWriMo is over and I know this is crazy but hear me out... what if you just kept writing? Like, what if you didn't stop just because we flipped the calendar...
Since early 2003, you've been hearing me talk about my project adapting the Italian fairy tale collection, Giambattista Basile's The Tale of Tales aka the Pentamerone, into a whole bunch of plays. There are six tales plays from this project finished so (of what I...
There is less than a week before we emerge, blinking, into sparkling December. While a handful of you have already finished your novel and are now winding the month down, adding finishing touches and picking out the sweater you'll wear in your author photo, the rest...
Wrimos, to be on pace, you should be hitting 20,000 words TODAY. If you're not there yet, do not fret! There's still plenty of time to hit 50,000 and beyond, you just gotta stick with it! We're due at the halfway point by Wednesday and then it's all downhill to the...
A theme in these monthly writing status updates is me saying, "I feel like I accomplished nothing this month!" and then posting a really big word count and this month is no exception. And I mention it because I'm starting to suspect this is not just a hang-up that I...
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