YOU COULD WIN BOOK 2 FOR FREE!!!! Here's the catch. You need to read everything below to find out how. Bua ha ha ha! Authors suffer from multiple frustrations. 1- We hear voices. As in, our characters are chatting incessantly in our heads. We need to write it down so the voices can stop! 2- There's never enough time in the day for writing, working, and life outside of writing and working. 3- No matter how many times we read and reread our work, we'll always find a better way

So I'm a teacher. Doesn't mean I'm not allowed to have a heart. I write stories that range from young adult to VERY adult. Thing is, I don't publish my ADULT romances, BECAUSE I'm a teacher. Writing romances doesn't make me a bad person. It doesn't even mean I have a dirty mind. It's not like I walk around with nasty thoughts in my head all the time. I'm just good at describing an intimate scene in a love story. Isn't that the whole point of writing? Describing so that the re

So...here's another project I've had on my computer for like...forever. What do you think? Here’s the thing about fire. It’s hypnotic. The way it sways its hips, beckons you with its arms, moving its body to a tune only the flames can hear. Burning passion ignites and consumes as it dances before your eyes, growing as it builds from the insignificant flicker of a birthday candle’s flame to a bonfire devouring all in its wake. It captivates with its beautiful deception. And wi

I’m sitting here, in my living room, and I’m thinking about all of the amazing writers in the world: William Faulkner, Jane Austen, Emily Dickinson, Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allen Poe, Emily & Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, Stephen King, and the list goes on and on. How did they do it? Publishing isn’t easy. In fact, most writers have struggled at some point in their publishing careers. There are many (more than you can imagine) that have received countless rejection lette

Writing Challenge #2 - Fire The Beginning and the End Here’s the thing about fire. It’s hypnotic. The way it sways its hips, beckons you with its arms, moving its body to a tune only the flames can hear. Burning passion ignites and consumes as it dances before your eyes, growing as it builds from the insignificant flicker of a birthday candle’s flame to a bonfire devouring all in its wake. It captivates with its beautiful deception. And with all its seduction comes the threat

Okay, so I'm doing a writing challenge to test my skills and get my writing juices flowing. This is new for me, and I'm super excited. I'm going to TRY to post once a week, unless real life gets in the way. This is the first of many to come, so let me know what you think. Oh, and if there are any you'd like me to continue, send me a message! Writing Challenge #1 – An object with a magical property Forever Changed I don’t know how I got here, but I’m suddenly very cold…and wet

Okay, so for our last writing assignment of the year, my students were instructed to write an imaginative story. Thing is, I didn't want to give them something TOO easy. So I gave them a little challenge. Remember the game MASH? We used to play it as kids to find out who we were going to marry, how many kids we were going to have, what we were going to live in (Mansion, Apartment, Shack, or House), and so on. Well, their writing was a little spin on this game. Here is the she