And This is Why (Snippet)

…And this is why in November I have to pay attention to new old shiny instead of old new shiny. Because apparently, this story hasn’t written itself:Conner’s gaze never focused on the ceiling, eyes staring at something beyond the prison roof. He didn’t...

In A Professional World

When I was ten, we moved. This was crushing to me as a ten-year-old because all of my friends were in the old school, not the new one. The place we moved was a new housing development, complete with a new elementary school opening up the next fall (as opposed to the...

Why Backstory is Important

A few years ago, a happy little west-coast girl wrote a series of vampire books that make women everywhere swoon at the sexiness of the supernatural leads and the realness of the main character. This was a fantastic time for YA novels because it meant that...

When You’re Anti-Repetition

Last week someone asked me to explain why I had twenty-four apples when they only showed that I had twenty-three. The answer was simple from my perspective. Because last time they asked, I only had twenty-three, and I didn’t realize they expected to be updated...

Possibly ADHD, possibly…ooh, shiny

*deletes irrelivent story*What? Yeah, I know, I push my luck trying to make these things all tie together sometimes anyway, but that was one that was really better off behind password on WDC. *Waves at work person reading my blog*.I was listening to music again this...

Plotting and Jamming

I was listening to music this morning. I do this most mornings when I have to work, because quite honestly talk radio grates on me. Any talk. Morning DJ’s, NPR, whatever. It works for some people, it doesn’t work for me. The morning and afternoon...