Behind The Pen

Well, hello friends!  I must be honest in saying, I don't really have a plan for this post. As I'm writing this very sentence I'm wondering what will come next and what will come after that.  Believe it or not, that's often how writing goes. Sometimes you have a basic idea of what you want to say, but you're still not quite sure what will come out. And then, like occasions such as this, you just have absolutely no idea what will occur.  But that's ok.  Because the fact of the matter is- I'm writing. I'm getting words down on paper and I'm no longer procrastinating writing this post.  It's interesting because, just today [the day of writing this post's first draft, that is], I listened to a lesson on YDubs that Brett Harris shared on writer's block. Essentially, the best thing to do is to sit in front of the doc and just write. It could even just be one sentence and that would be enough. And then, since you're there and you're just...

Hey, guys! I'm back! (But you already knew that since you're here reading this right now and you had to click on the post to read it) I'm really sorry It's taken me so long to get back to writing on my blog but the good news is, I have plans for some series coming up in the future (Now I just need to make those plans come to life!) So, what's been going on since my last post? Well, for one thing, I reached over 20,000 words in my current WIP! At 23,800 words+ my novella is slowly reaching its end (I still have a fair bit to go, though!). I'm SO happy I got this far and, for a novella that started out just as a short story, it's continually shocked me to see how much I've written! I couldn't have done it without God's amazing love and help, along with the amazing assistance of the YWW (And my awesome Alpha readers... and my family support. So, a few things actually!)!!! Speaking of the YWW... (Points to me for the amazing transition...

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...

As some of you may or may not know I am part of an online writing community called the Young Writers Workshop (YWW or Y-dubs for short) and today I'm going to share this wonderful place with you. The way I'm going to do this is as some questions and answer them- so let's get started! Who created the Young Writers Workshop? The YWW was set up by Brett Harris (co-author of the book Do Hard Things) and Jaquelle Crowe (author of This Changes Everything) Links to their books will be found at the end of the post.  So, who is the YWW for?  Any young writer aged 10-25 (But that's a rough guideline)  Anybody who is on a writing journey pursuing publication Anyone who is just starting their writing journey pursuing publication Anybody who wants to start a writing journey pursuing publication Anyone who writes just for a hobby Anybody who is currently writing and has already been published Just about any sort of young writer.  But how does YWW wor...