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After this awesome video by Tera Lynn Childs at Writeoncon, I felt inspired to make a few character collages. I’m going to be starting a new project soon, and I wanted to get an idea of who these characters really are. Plus, I got to spend lots of fun time with my friends and critique partners, which is always good. We talked through our stories a little bit and worked out some plot details while we cut things out. I wish I had taken a picture of the living room floor with all of the magazines on it! It was…

Sometimes I feel paralyzed when I have to make important decisions. I’m certainly old enough to have been making my own decisions for many years now, but at the same time, there are certain kinds of decisions that leave me spinning my wheels for months, unable to really commit. Yesterday, I had a breakthrough when I realized that this is definitely where I’m going wrong with my career path. Too many options, not enough focus. When I think about the different ways I can make money, I know that I am lucky. I have multiple options. I’m not saying I…

There are 5 essential things I need to do every single day in order to keep moving forward with my goals. Sometimes, life can seem overwhelming, so narrowing my focus down to these 5 things will (hopefully) help me seem less frazzled and make my goals seem less impossible. Earlier this week, I suffered a sort of meltdown. I couldn’t sleep, so I got up and wrote in my journal until almost 4 am. What did I write about? Basically, the fact that so many of my goals feel so impossibly out of reach. I want to lose weight, but…

Yesterday, I got rejected by the agent of my dreams. For the most part, it was a form rejection. And it broke my heart. There was a short note at the very bottom of the email saying that although my writing is strong, the story didn’t stand out enough to make her fall in love with it. Sound familiar? If it doesn’t, then you haven’t been reading my rejection letters. They are starting to sound like a broken record. I guess as far as rejections go, I would much rather be told that I have strong writing with a weak…

Sometimes it just feels good to organize. For example, our office has been slowly growing out of control. We have this closet that used to have sliding doors over it. When I first moved in, we took those doors off, put in a few bookcases, and turned the closet into a little mini-library. It was all very organized. I promise. G’s side of the closet pretty much always stays organized. He rarely adds anything to it other than some spare computer parts, so it stays the same most of the time. My side, on the other hand, is insane. I…

I have a school supply addiction. I admit it. Always around this time of year, I feel like a reformed gambling addict forced to live in a casino. I get all these daily emails from the office supply stores with promises of $1 items and 20% off! How can I resist? Pens are the worst. No matter how many pens I own, I always want more. I can’t help it. Pens and different colors of post-its. Come to think of it, it’s the colors that get me, really. Anything that typically comes in lots of different colors – I want…