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Today’s the day I finish that novel Today’s the day I start that novel I have so many ideas, it’s hard to focus on just one WHY HAVE THE IDEA FAIRIES ABANDONED ME?!? I need tea I need coffee UGGGGH I NEED TO START DRINKING TEA OR COFFEE. I love mornings! I’m more of a…

  We all believe we’re the next F. Scott Fitzgerald. Some of us are. Some of us aren’t. Some of us are napkin-scribblers. Some of us are dreamers. Some of us are even better than we once hoped. Some of us aren’t, but are getting there. And all of us have a reality that isn’t…

Many writers link mental illness with some brilliantly minded form of genius. Think Sherlock Holmes, Hannibal Lecter, and even Dr. Frankenstein. From the depths of madness, there is art and music and literary beauty. But there’s something wrong with this trope, and I’ve fallen into it too and I’m trying my best to remedy that to…

Happy belated Valentine’s Day! For the most of us who are single and not ready to mingle, here’s a list of romantic tropes often found in sappy movies/TV shows/songs/and books! Enjoy you fellow, grumbling writers, you! The cute meet. Boy meets girl in romantic cliché way that somehow ends up being cute. Think of losing…

Geekiness had a bad rap in the eighties. Look to movies like “The Breakfast Club” or “Weird Science” and you’ll know what I mean. Being geeky/nerdy meant having a pocket protector and being shoved into lockers. Well, that trend is changing. Now, being geeky means following in the footsteps of Mark Zuckerberg in “The Social…

Now, I know I did a similar list to this a while back about teenager clichés to avoid. But, seeing as I’m STILL a teenager, I thought I’d bring up a couple tropes that I, and many other authors, use when writing about teens. (Warning, comedy ahead.) HORMONES, HORMONES, HORMONES! “I was walking in the…

Hey writing fellows! I know that, after reading tons of fantasy stories and the comics and the movies and the fanfictions (wait, was that last part just me?) we all believe we have an idea of what fantasy stories look like. But it’s easy for our subconscious to insert one or two (or twenty) bad…

Here are some winter writing prompts, ten of them to be exact, for any writers who feel like they need some inspiration or just a way to get out of that writing funk. You wake up married to your worst enemy. You are trapped in an eternal winter, but then you discover you are the…

Writers always tend to be crunched for time, whether it be looming deadlines or a very small writing window between lunch and picking up the dog from the kennel. Writing is hard enough, but should you take that extra step and block out a set time to read? And when you do choose to read,…

Every writer, painter, singer, would-be fitness model, hopeful student, aspiring entrepreneur, and general human aims to make this year better than the last. Whether it be finding love at your own pace, publishing a novel, or finally going to the gym, here are some tips and tricks for maintaining your New Year’s Resolution past January…