After one year, six months, and nineteen days, I’ve finally finished the rough draft completely. It took a lot longer than I had anticipated after setting a goal for myself to be finished by the end of January, but I added a lot more to the plot, spent a great deal of time editing, and took some time away from writing to focus on school. … Continue reading Officially Finished
It has been much too long since I wrote on this blog. With school swinging into full force, working as an editor for another website, and a lack of desire/inspiration to write, it has been three months since I’ve posted any new content. Now, though, finals are over and the summer is here. School came to a close with me finalizing the best semester of … Continue reading The Return: Musings on the Future and Recent Past
This morning I received yet another email from a literary agent unwilling to represent me and get Sunset Cove published. This marked the fifth rejection email I’ve received on the project. This morning’s email was different, though. It wasn’t an automated response generated from an overbooked agent, nor was it a task assigned to a secretary giving the stereotypical “thanks, but no thanks” response. Instead, … Continue reading Update: Handling Rejection
Writing about the past is normally my strongest ability, but this novel has been challenging at the very least. More appropriately, this piece of my soul that I have been penning has been the culmination of experiencing all emotions imaginable as they pertain to a single other person. It is based on many true events, though I won’t disclose which are fictional and which actually … Continue reading Upon Completion
