I’ve Released a Craft Book/Writing Workbook! 27 Dec 2023 8:32 AM (last year)
I am excited to announce the release of my Every Day Writing Habit Challenge workbook! It’s a 200-page downloadable workbook–and writing craft book–that will walk a new writer, or someone making a burnout comeback, through from story idea to third-draft revision in under one year. Whether you’re writing your first novel or making a writer’s-block […]
Why You Haven’t Seen Me Here | Or, How Deconversion Has Affected My Writing Journey 11 Nov 2023 1:14 PM (last year)
I posted some of this over on Threads (@kayedacus), but I used to have more of an audience here than I do over there. And I know I’ve probably already lost at least 50% of that audience just from the title of this post. But one of the main reasons why I know I have […]
Nov 1st One Sentence #nanowrimo21 1 Nov 2021 5:19 PM (3 years ago)
The wine went down much more smoothly than the truth.
Repost: November Writing Challenge | #nanowrimo #nano2021 24 Oct 2021 6:04 AM (3 years ago)
Originally published November 1, 2020 November 1 is once more upon us, which means millions of published, unpublished, and first-time writers are picking up the challenge to write 50,000 words of a novel in 30 days. Many times in the past, I’ve signed up for this challenge, assuring myself that even though I haven’t created […]
Wait . . . I Wrote This? Revisiting a Partial Manuscript Eight Years Later 3 May 2021 4:27 AM (3 years ago)
Some of you may recall Stephen Brightwell from Follow the Heart and An Honest Heart and rightly suspected that he was to get his own book. That was, until my publisher decided to stop publishing fiction. But before they came to that decision, I’d started writing The Heart that Waits—what was supposed to be the […]
April 2021 Scribbler Subscription Unboxing 30 Apr 2021 6:11 PM (3 years ago)
As mentioned last week, there are two monthly subscription boxes that I’ve stuck with after trying out a multitude of different ones over the past year. Last week, I featured my planner box. This week, it’s my writing kit from Scribbler. Without the option of having a writing group to get together with monthly, this […]
April 2021 The Planner Society Kit Unboxing 23 Apr 2021 2:16 PM (3 years ago)
During lockdown, I’ve become something of an online shopping/subscription box addict. I’ve tried multiple types of subscription boxes over the past year — from food to makeup/nail art to “variety of mostly stuff I ended up having no use for” (or however you would describe boxes like Fab, Fit, Fun that tend to focus more […]
The lifelong legacy of Beverly Cleary, children’s author 27 Mar 2021 8:43 AM (4 years ago)
I recently reread the Ramona books (for the first time as an adult), and I’d forgotten what an impact this author had on my life as a young reader that set me up for a lifelong love. what a legacy! Beverly Cleary, the celebrated children’s author whose memories of her Oregon childhood were shared with […]
2021 Reading Goal and Monthly Challenges | #amreading 18 Jan 2021 7:58 PM (4 years ago)
After feeling like I lost most of 2020 due to . . . well, not keeping track of things well, and after bingeing a bunch of videos on YouTube watching people set up or flip through their reading journals, I decided that I wanted to keep a paper reading journal this year, in addition to […]
December Challenge Day 6 (12 Minutes per Day) | #amwriting 6 Dec 2020 9:24 PM (4 years ago)
She’d started drawing them as soon as she’d been able to hold a crayon. Rudimentary at first, then with more and more detail. By third grade, her skill at drawing the scenes in her head had her school talking to the foster agency about getting her into specialized classes or art lessons. But the foster […]