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This WIP Wednesday is going to look a little different. It will definitely be more personal. I thought about keeping these feelings to myself, partly because I don’t think I can properly express the emotions that sometimes overtake my mind, and partly because I’m afraid of being judged. But isn’t that part of being a…

Today I’m sharing a snippet from my old WIP titled Keepsake. It’s a YA contemporary about four best friends and their last summer together before college. I loved all the characters but stalled and then got distracted by other projects. It was a lot of fun to write and my first time attempting 3rd person.…

This is a section from a manuscript I wrote years ago. Maybe I’ll get back to it someday. ***** The air was crisp, almost good enough to take a bite out of. My favorite kind of fall day. Tree roots and wet leaves covered the path ahead of me. I maneuvered my feet around them,…

I had a whole post written that waxed poetic about why I decided to start sharing my not so great writing, but I’m not going to make you wade through all of that when I can just say this: Writing is hard and it isn’t always pretty Sometimes we write things that we don’t like…

I’m a pantser. Always have been. I hear a voice, or imagine a scene, and off I go to the laptop, fingers typing furiously as I try to grab a hold of the story being woven inside my head with each new word I write. It’s terrifying and exhilarating and I figured that was the…