Breathe. When you’ve done so much but it never feels like you’ve done enough. When your head is spinning as you’re standing still. When you’re living to do and not living to live. Breathe. When the lists get longer and longer. When you feel smaller and smaller. When you don’t know where the tasks start … Continue reading Just Breathe
From purchasing our first house to making it a home, this past year has been more than frenzied. But I’m so excited to start this clean slate of a new year getting back into the things that I love, and this post will be a friendly reminder to myself as the year goes on.That’s what … Continue reading A Clean Slate
Life has been wonderfully busy these past few months and even before then – but definitely these past few months. In a previous blog post, I spoke about the busy months I was having. And so the busyness continued to the point where my personal writing, reading and vlogging fell to the wayside. But I'm … Continue reading I Have Huge News!!!
Saying the past few months have been eventful would be an understatement. Life. It can pass you by so quickly. Fall isn’t here just yet, but advertisers are already flooding my social media feeds with talk of the upcoming season. I will admit, I am excited to watch all my favorite harvest flicks – but … Continue reading Life & All Things Home Decor
On June 28th, I didn’t know what I had envisioned being a short story would turn into my second novel. After I fell in love with my main characters, I knew that the story must continue. And it did. I planned to discovery write along the way and learn more about my characters as time … Continue reading How I Wrote My Young Adult Novel
This month is Camp NaNoWriMo, which happens in April and July. It’s a less intense version of NaNoWriMo, where us writers come together to work on any writing project we want. This is my first time participating, and so far so good. My loose goal (I say loose because while it would be great to … Continue reading The End Is In Sight
As a twenty-something-year-old, I question myself more than I ever did when I was little. As hard as I try to be all in with every aspect of my life, it's easy for my mind to get infiltrated by doubt and fear. It is then that I find one foot all in and the other … Continue reading I’m All In
Photo by Sebastian Voortman on Pexels.com You See Me Thank you, God, for seeing me For meeting me where I am and surrounding me For searching the deep depths of my heart and fine tuning me For loving me unconditionally and choosing me For giving me a purpose and sticking with me Thank you, God, … Continue reading You See Me
It feels like National Novel Writing Month flew by because it's halfway through. The last time I spoke to you, the manuscript was around 25,000 words. Now, it's at roughly 32,000 words. I started Nano with a 19,000-word manuscript, which means I've added 13,000 words in just two weeks. I'm super proud of myself for … Continue reading Week Two NanoWriMo Wrap Up
At the start of the first week of NanoWriMo, my YA Contemporary novel was sitting at about 19,000 words. Now at the end of the week, my manuscript has 25,000 words. I'm 2,000 words shy of where I wanted to be by now, but I'm happy with the progress I have made. I'm in the … Continue reading Week One NanoWriMo 2021 Wrap Up
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