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On Feast, Famine, and Staying Hungry

On Feast, Famine, and Staying Hungry

November is an interesting month of abundance–the final harvest before the cold, bleak winter. We gain pounds, lose the leaves, and, of course, squeeze out a ton of words. That’s right, I’m talking about NaNoWriMo!

Writers of the Future

Writers of the Future

I've tried to write this blog post I don't know how many times in the weeks since the workshop, but it's been really hard to organize my thoughts. I think this is because the Writers of the Future experience covered an extremely broad spectrum of experience....

Decompressing from Writers of the Future

Decompressing from Writers of the Future

When I was accepted to the Writers of the Future contest, I obsessively combed blogs and posts by people who had attended the workshop in the past. I had this running monologue in my head as I carefully combed through what few tidbits I found, and kept asking myself, quite selfishly, “Why don’t more people post during the experience? Why don’t they blog? I need to know more!”

Well, now I know more.

Submitting, Waiting, Wishing

Submitting, Waiting, Wishing

For someone who writes as much as I do, I don’t submit very often. Very rarely does one of my stories hit me in the way that “Dirt Road Magic” hit me before I sent it off to Writers of the Future. And I think this is a personal flaw.

Anatomy of an Author Website

Anatomy of an Author Website

I wrote this as a reddit post recently, and thought it made good recycling material. You can find the original post here. I rebuilt my author website recently, and since I've received some compliments for it, I thought I'd share my process for other writers who want...

My First Cover Reveal

My First Cover Reveal

For a short story writer, a cover reveal is rare, and yet here I am at my first cover reveal! In April I will officially be a published author and, man, that sounds weird.

First!

First!

For years blogspot was my website, blogger my platform. But something changed in my life recently to make me take my authorship more seriously, and it was time to finally migrate here, my own website. This is the first post on my new blog. I've decided to start fresh...

About

Being named after a Stephen King novel does funny things to a person. For Carrie, it inspired her to write. Having lived in eight different states, she has plenty of material to draw from for her stories.

Writers of the Future Contest Winner

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On AI

Why do you want to be a writer? Is it to explore new, fantastical worlds? To delve into the meaning behind human relationships? To examine the course of humanity from now into the distant future of star travel? To therapeutically explore concepts, worlds, characters, or memories that just won’t leave you alone? Or is it to see your name on a book cover? To be called an “author”? To make money?

Procrastiwriting

How blogging is a reasonable method of procrastination.

Mechanics

On how writing mechanically makes me able to write more than 6k words a day

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