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It’s been a few weeks since I returned from Chicago-North RWA’s 2016 Spring Fling writers conference, so I’ve had some time to synthesize my experience beyond “SO AMAZING BLERGH-AHHHH!!!!” It was my first writers conference of any kind, let alone my first romance writers conference, and it was So. Good…
I love to type. When I was in elementary school, sometimes my mom would take me to work with her over the summer (a perk of working for the family business). She’d sit me in front of her typewriter in her office and assign me “projects:” mostly nonsense meant to kill time, but I adored it. Her…
Thinking about attending a writers conference? Do it. I just attended my first, Chicago-North RWA’s 2016 Spring Fling, and it was 1000% worth it. There were informative panels; valuable craft and publishing workshops; pitch appointments with agents and editors; and uh-mazing headliners. Christina Lauren, Courtney Milan, and Robyn Carr? Yes, please! It was an all-around incredible…
Some days, I just don’t feel like writing. I’m tired. I stare at a blank page and I don’t know what happens next. The latest episode of Outlander is burning a hole in my DVR; it calls to me. I want to take a nap. There are a thousand reasons why you might not feel like writing…
Writing gods are greedy bastards. They demand more frequent and larger sacrifices to be appeased than any other gods in my life, except for parenting (parenting gods require a lifetime commitment sealed in blood in addition to daily rations of sleep, health, and sanity). What are my typical sacrifices to the writing gods, you ask? Television. There’s no aimless…
