I always knew I wasn’t going to have money in my twenties. I wanted to be a writer. It’s nebulous whether I’ll ever have money. That was something that seemed like an easy trade-off when I made the decision to commit myself to my art as a teenager. I’d rather have time than money, and… Continue reading When Social Stigma Hits You All At Once
“Rewriting” is a word that’s meaning greatly depends on my mood when I hear it. If I feel like I’m riding on top of the world, sure, no problem. You want me to take my literary talent and be even MORE awesome on the page? Of course! Obviously you see talent and potential in the… Continue reading Rewriting like Sisyphus
Hello all! I never know how much to talk about my personal life on this blog. It’s really hard to find the healthy balance between writing related stuff and just life in general. I get demotivated because the actual process of writing novels and sending out query letters can get pretty dang boring, but then… Continue reading Emotions are For Writing, Not Feeling
Greetings from the road! I am once again traveling in order to clear and clutter my mind. While my end destination is Stanford in time for graduation, there’s a little bit i want to do between now and then. I’ve already spent almost a week in Portland, seeing old friends and making a couple of… Continue reading Fireworks in Portland and My Writing
Hello, all! My life has been insane, and the stress finally caught up to me. I came down sick this week and am only now recovering. Just in the knick of time too, because I’m leaving town this weekend to spend a little time out in the western Washington countryside, the tiny metropolis Portland, my… Continue reading A New Pet-Project and Travel Plans
I kind of want to give up writing and just drink tea full-time. I’ve gotten to the point where drinking tea is such a sensuous experience that I can’t even focus on a story while I drink. I’ve been challenging myself not to over-indulge my craving for lavender milk tea, but I found a tea… Continue reading My Lavender Love Affair with Tea
Hello! As you may have noticed if you checked out my last post, the blog has undergone a little bit of a makeover. It’s been a royal drag trying to make sense of WordPress Premium, but so it goes. I’m easily confused by “intuitive” systems that don’t have a logic to them, but are just… Continue reading New and Improved and Confused
There’s something childish, exciting, and quintessentially magical about fairytales. The problem is, most of them are pretty puerile or morbid stories. Either you get the dolled up Disney version of Cinderella, or you go back far enough to the Grimm Brothers’ version where the stepsisters are hacking off parts of their feet in order to… Continue reading Retold Fairytales: A Crossroads of Age and Youth
I don’t review a lot of books on this blog, and the reason for that is mostly because I don’t want to feel obligated to write up reviews for everything I read. Reading is fun, but sometimes writing reviews still feels a bit like doing book reports for school. Also, many of the books I… Continue reading Beautiful Americans (Book Review)
After much kicking and screaming (or rather laziness and grouching) I’ve finally accepted the reality that if I want to get good, creative work done…I have to exercise. Writing is, from a factual and physical standpoint, a very motionless and almost sterile activity. As alive and invigorated as I feel while I do it, sometimes… Continue reading Write, Exericse, Write, Write…Remember to BREATHE
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