Bringing Joy Back Into Your Writing | Guest Post

I just couldn’t write. I’d moved one project into the editing phase and, per usual, began brainstorming what my next rough draft would be. I knew which one I wanted it to be, and it had had more than enough time to sit in my brain and soak up creative juices. Everything looked to be …

The Wonderland Trials

RatingFour stars BlurbSolve the clues. Face your fears. Win the Trials. All Alice Liddell wants is to escape her Normal life in Oxford and find the parents who abandoned her ten years ago. But she gets more than she bargained for when her older sister Charlotte is arrested for having the infamous Wonder Gene—the key …

Trust the Process

Self doubt is often our middle name as writers. It’s something I myself struggle with more times than not. It’s destructive to our writing process and hinders our ability to write. But too often we feel like helpless victims to it. We let ourselves believe everything our self doubt tells us and soon… we’re not …

3 Tips on How to Write Dialogue

Dialogue. *sigh* Many writers struggle to writing dialogue that sounds real and believable, not only from the characters but in the readers imagination as well. We want dialogue that roles off the tip of the readers tongue. We want it to sound natural, as if two people are literally standing next to the reader having …

The Healer’s Apprentice by Melanie Dickerson

RatingFive stars BlurbTwo Hearts. One Hope. Rose has been appointed as a healer's apprentice at Hagenheim Castle, a rare opportunity for a woodcutter's daughter like her. While she often feels uneasy at the sight of blood, Rose is determined to prove herself capable. Failure will mean returning home to marry the aging bachelor her mother …

The Comparison Game

We’ve all done it. We’ve all gotten to a point where we feel pretty good about ourselves, we feel, for once, that our writing isn’t too bad (dare I say—good). But then you do it. You compare yourself to someone else. Then, suddenly, your progress doesn’t feel good enough. You don’t feel good enough. You …

Accepting Feedback With Grace

Have you ever been in the place where you want feedback on your writing, you want people to tear it a part and give you their best critique. But then, when you actually give it to them and you see the edits and critiques start coming in, you cringe. You feel like a horrible writer. …

Dearest Josephine by Caroline George

RatingFive stars BlurbCaroline George sweeps readers up into two different time periods with an unexpected love story that prompts us to reimagine what it means to be present with the people we love. 2020: Chocolate and Earl Grey tea can’t fix Josie De Clare’s horrible year. She mourned the death of her father and suffered …

Endurance in the Little Things

Endurance: the ability to withstand hardship or adversity. Endurance: the ability to sustain a prolonged stressful effort or activity. Endurance: the act or an instance of enduring. When we think of endurance, we think of running a marathon, climbing a mountain, or getting through a workout challenge. We think of something difficult to achieve. Endurance …

How to Push Through a Tough Writing Day

You’re tired. Worn out. On the edge of burn out. You determined in your mind that you were going to write way more today but somehow the words won’t come. You’ve hardly written a good one hundred words. How did this happen? You feel defeated. And everything inside of you wants to close the computer …