I didn’t participate this year, but NaNoWriMo has always held a very, very special place in my heart. It was in NaNoWriMo 2016 that I pushed myself to write the first draft of my debut novel, Honey Butter, which was published nine months later in August 2017.
Milan, Italy Thursday, October 3rd, 2019 The cobblestone Piazza in front of the famous church buzzed with small clusters of tourists and a singular postcard seller. The air was brisk, the jacket of my five-year-old sister flapping as she twirled; impatient, filled with boundless energy. The great bricked arches of the church soared above us. [...]
Ah, that one simple sentence which is the bane of every fantasy writer's existence. "Write what you know." "But how then?" The fantasy writer argues, frowning and leaning forward in his chair, "am I to write about dragons? Fairy balls? Death-defying rescues?" The answer is simpler than you may believe. “Fiction is Truth's elder sister," Rudyard Kipling [...]
The National Gallery London, England, February 2018 The room was crowded with tourists and art enthusiasts. The melody of different languages touched my ears. A thousand different smells. A thousand different voices. People clustered about the painting, and between the crush of somber colored coats, here and there, a flicker of yellow met my eyes. My father and [...]
Hello everyone! Today I have a very special post for you! I'll be interviewing one of my fellow young author friends, J. C.! I first met her, and another author friend, Riley, last July at the Realm Makers conference. We had an amazing time and became fast friends. Since then, we've kept up through FaceTime [...]