I feel like I've been asleep for the last few months. Maybe it's the weather changing, the daylight waning, or even just the burnout talking, but I feel like there has been a fog over my mind. Burnout is a wild beast. My focus is asleep, everything I try to do is boring, and worst… Continue reading Burnout is like forced hibernation
I have a special place in my heart for NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). It's how I kept up my writing during high school and college and into "adulthood." But, it's also a ridiculously difficult goal to keep when you don't have as much free time as before. Not only the free time, but I… Continue reading On not doing Nanowrimo this year.
It has come to my attention, thanks to a dear friend, that I am doing "a lot" right now. Which honestly, fair. When I break it down into a to do list...it makes me tired to look at. Line-edit freelancing Drawing class 1x per week Writing critique group 2x per month Wedding planning Working standard… Continue reading It’s not writer’s block…it’s burnout
Oh boy. It's been a busy month. All good things, but oof. The worst part is that, for some reason, I can't get myself to start working on my edit. I'm so intimidated by reading through it and starting changes. I think they call that "resistance," when the internal critic decides it's safest to keep… Continue reading So much to do and not able to start
I didn't really know what to expect from a developmental editor. Sure, I know how I edit things and how my critique group comments on pieces, but I didn't know how that would look from somebody else. If you, like me, don't know what to expect from a developmental editor, let me break it down… Continue reading Developmental Edits are in!
Subtle Stories 