Credit If you’re a book person, you already know that this week is Banned Books Week. As a writer and book lover, this is an extremely important week because yours truly believes that censorship is crap. Even High School Alicia and College Alicia didn’t like the concept. It’s one thing if you personally disagree/dislike/outwardly hate something, but it’s totally different
Surefire Methods to Beat Writer’s Block
Every Wednesday, YA Highway asks their readership a simple question to answer on your blog. Once you answer, you link your blog in the comments for other readers to hop on board. This is Road Trip Wednesday. Today’s Topic: How do you beat writer’s block? Sometimes I think the ladies at YA Highway read my mind. I’m beginning to burn
Pansters and Plotters
When I first started writing, I was totally a pantser. Whatever came to my head in terms of scene, I’d write. While this made for a fun first draft, it proved to be utter shit for my revision process*. As I progressed in my writing, I tried different things. Like plotting something out. Talk about life-changing. My drafting time went
Kick Start Your Creative Slump!
We all have those moments where the ideas/words/brilliance don’t come. If you’re like me, these times when nothing ends up on the page mean a lot of bitchy behavior until the block passes. If you’re also like me, you like to expedite that process. The question is how? I’ve talked about this before, but that was more geared to when
Task-Setting for Writers, Part IV: The Power of “No.”
Welcome to the final installment of Task-Setting for Writers. If you missed a week, you can read the previous three weeks here. By now it’s been established that we’re here because we need help getting everything done that we want to get done. Case in point, this week I spread myself too thin: date night with Hubby, the final meeting