After meeting my first goal of one hundred followers on Twitter (What!?) and my second goal of two hundred and fifty (WHAT!?!?), I...

Simply put, a word count is the total number of words used in a piece of writing. It’s a simple concept, yet it’s something we writers...

Terry Pratchett once said, “The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.” The first draft is inevitably meant to be a mess....

Up until recently, things have been a little chaotic behind the screen a few weeks ago because while I was in the preliminary stages of...

Hello and Happy Launch Day! My name is Avril Marie Aalund, and it is both my pleasure and honor to welcome you to my blog. I am an...