Totally Unique Character Flaws

We’ve all been there.  We’ve all suffered through it. We’ve all lost precious hours to stories/books/movies with cardboard characters. The clumsy, yet otherwise perfect woman. The brute who just doesn’t deserve love (for no reason other than he “just doesn’t”). The characters whose flaws are limited to: uncontrollable blushing, or… forgetting their keys, or… carrying …

Caught in a Cat Romance

I just looked over my latest blog posts, and for a romance writer, I haven’t been writing a whole lot about romance. So this week, I bring you the greatest romance of all time: The romance of my cats.   Stay tuned, there is a car accident, so you know this romance has a dramatic …

New Life

I nearly piss myself when the wheel finally comes to a complete stop. I blink several times, just to be sure.  I am not seeing things, not today. The arrow points at the sparkling, gold panel, the only one of its kind on the entire roulette. The host turns to me, microphone pressed right up …

Bog Slog – Jogging my Way Out

Like most writers out there, I’ve experienced some bouts with doubts. The last couple weeks I’ve been slogging about in the mire that is imposter syndrome.  My metaphorical boots were getting so bogged down by the uh, bog, that it was getting harder and harder to lift them for another squishy step in the swamp …

The Princess’s Game

"Stop, stop, STOP," Bob said, crossing his arms over the strained buttons of his tropical-print polo. "What color are they?" "Pardon?" I said, eyebrow raised. I should have just said no when they asked me to teach them how to play D&D. Seemed like a quick couple bucks, desperately needed, but I should have known …

Don’t Look Out the Window: The Discharged Superhero

I'm sure some of us feel like discharged superheroes from time to time... especially on a Monday morning. *This is a short story I wrote in response to the Reddit r/WritingPrompts: you were the world's only superhero in your teens and early 20s. You're approaching 30, you now have a day job and have to sit …

Introvert Batteries: Size Does Matter

My poor extroverted best friend… both her boyfriend and I, the two people closest to her, are undeniably introverted.  Lucky for her, I have a ridiculously huge battery capacity (and no, I am not an awkward, monotone, battery-operated cyborg, for any extroverts who happen to come across this post). You may have heard of the …

Author Idol: Sarah Fine and her Fantastic Fantastical Fiction

Quick post today, but one well worth your time if you need a new author to read!  Enter, Sarah Fine.  Her website indicates she writes “Fantastical fiction for teens and adults”.  "Fantastical" is an excellent way to describe it.  It covers both the "fantasy/imagination" and "fantastic/excellent" definitions of the word.  However, I don’t want to simply …

The Celebrity Crush List

I have a mind-blowing secret. Ready? *whispers*: I've had crushes on celebrities. Sorry, I had to write "whispers", I'm a little creepy. Anyway. I thought it would be fun to share the list of all my major crushes since the dawn of time (that I can recall anyway, I'm sure there were plenty more).  Maybe …

Everyone Gets Imposter Syndrome (My Failed Attempts at Reassuring a Rockstar)

Whenever I get discouraged in my writing, that snide, little voice in the back of my head tends to turn to insults which contrast me with JK Rowling.  I’ll never be like her.  I don’t possess that inherent greatness.  On a good day I possess inherent “okayness”.  She obviously has magical powers (she went to …