We all have that one task we keep putting off. You know it'll be better to just get it over and done with, especially in the long run, but you just can't find the time or muster up the initiative to just do the dang thing. A while back, I decided I wanted to go through every single one of my old blog posts and polish them up for a couple of reasons. Formatting, for one. When I first launched my blog, I was using a different platform and some of the formatting didn't carry ove

My blog turns 7 this week! 2025 has been a year of quiet productivity and growth as a writer, and I'm as eager as ever to see what my eighth year in the blogging sphere holds. I started this blog a few months after graduating from college as an unpublished, aspiring writer. While my language around that has changed to terms like " fledgling writer " or "not-yet-published-writer" as I more often use on social media, the number of published books under my belt is still zero. Th

For writers, there's no better place to be than in the zone. When the words are flowing, your characters are behaving, and everything is coming together. We love sitting down to write at 7:00 PM and not knowing how much time is flying by until we look up and realize it's somehow 1:00 in the morning. But for some writers, it can be hard to get into that state of mind. We live in a world of distractions. There are things that need our attention outside of our writing that somet

I have a confession to make: do you remember those icebreaker activities your teachers would make you do during the first day of school? The ones that nearly everyone I know loathed participating in? I secretly loved them. Even though there's nothing like the internal panic of your mind going blank when you're tasked with coming up with an animal that starts with the same letter as your first name (in addition to remembering all of the names and animals that were said before

2024 has been an exciting year for this blog! I was able to give it a long-overdue overhaul I'm incredibly pleased with. I finally got my newsletter up and running after saying I would for Lord knows how long. I uploaded my 300th post back in September and just a few weeks ago, I celebrated the sixth anniversary of launching the site! Even though I've occasionally heard people say that blogs are outdated, I've always felt that this platform works better for me (and my schedul

This week, we're celebrating the sixth anniversary of the blog! 2024 has been an especially remarkable year for the blog, as it not only saw a total glow-up but I was also approved to run Google AdSense, meaning I'm able to earn a tiny bit from my posts; though far from enough to make a livable income, it's a good start and pretty darn motivating to be earning something for my writing. I've learned a lot about writing over these six years, and I think it's fair to say that th