Behind The Pen

So, yea. I didn't post on Saturday. Bummer. Sorry about that, guys! But there's news. Big news. Amazing news. Fantastic news. Brilliant news. (My apologies for the excessive adjectives and repetition) You may or may not know that my current WIP has been the longest project I've ever worked on and today I crossed over a massive milestone with it. I crossed the line of short story and novelette! My story is actually, really, finally, a novelette (There you go, have some more excessive adjectives!) This may not seem a that amazing, but trust me, it is! I have written 7,768 words. When this is all finished there will be some words replaced, taken away, added, fixed, edited, and changed, but what matters right now is that I have actually written seven thousand, seven hundred, and sixty-eight words(Wow, it seems even longer when typed out in word form!). It's no longer a small project. It's big and it's getting even bigger. I'm learning so much an...

Happy Christmas everyone! Yes, I know I was supposed to post this on Saturday but please forgive me for not posting this sooner! Anyway, let's get onto the post! It's so nice to be able to say, "Happy Christmas," because December has finally come and Christmas can be celebrated! Whoohoo! This Christmas is my first year as a writer! Cool, huh? I've decided to write a Christmas story- the first I've ever done- and I'm going to share a little information about it with you guys today! Now, as a fiction writer, it could be expected that I would create a story of my own (which, actually, is quite a good idea, but that's beside the point). Contrary to what might be thought, I'm re-telling a story. Don't worry, I'm not trying to rip anybody off! I'm retelling a story that has already been retold in different ways. I'm retelling the birth of Jesus. Now, I'm sure that this story has been shared with the world in many wo...