Life from a Rotting Log
What can a swamp-soaked piece of wood teach us about resilience? Between 40 bug bites and a sinus infection, here is why feeling unproductive is sometimes the first step to growing something beautiful.
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The Tides of Writing
Last week, my mother-in-law came to town and treated my little family to a beach vacation in Myrtle Beach. We spent plenty of time enjoying the waves, but my favorite moments happened when I got my kayak and camera out. After doing some research, I quickly identified a salt marsh where I could paddle around…
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Day 1 of Writing 9,000 Words
One of the biggest traps a writer can fall into is believing that their work needs to be incredible the first time around. That’s the kind of thinking where writer’s block is born. Today I officially started a full week off of work, and boy, did I hit the ground running. Yesterday, I sat down…
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Bass the Putter: The Infinite Loop of Creative Irony
Do you ever mix up the sounds and letters in words while you’re talking? Because I do. And it feels like I do it a lot. It’s actually become a running joke in my inner circles because I also write a lot, and words are my thing. You know? Indiana Jones has a hat, Popeye…
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Writing Through the Chaos
Worry not! I’m still alive. 😉 Words are getting written, too. It’s been a massive adjustment over the last six months—starting a job teaching, moving to South Carolina, raising my little baby boy. It adds up. Life gets busy. Fortunately, I feel like writing has already become a core piece of who I am. Even…
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Tag Along – Discovering the Hanger Sword
Tag Along – Discovering the Hanger Sword Join me as I research hanging swords in an effort to increase my writing ability Regardless of how you feel about weapons, you have to admit—they do a fantastic job spicing up life. Think about it: even the most mundane situations become exciting when a weapon enters the…
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Quetzalcoatl: The Aztec Myth That Inspires My Writing
The Aztec Lore that Found Its Way Into my Novels Snakes are already fearsome. Add wings, and they become nightmare fuel. Imagine not just watching one slither toward you, but seeing it descend from the sky. This is the image carried in Aztec mythology of the feathered serpent, Quetzalcoatl. More than scales and feathers, it…
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My Last Daily Post
Today marks my 48th daily weekday post in a row—and it’s my last. It has been a good run, and I’ve enjoyed the challenge, but it’s time to pivot. Instead of writing a post every weekday, I’m going to be spending more time on editing, crafting, and researching a single weekly post every Wednesday. I’ve…
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Mash the Keyboard
Mash the keyboard. What comes out? Words. Letters. Symbols. Meaning. I sit again to write,Ideas drain from brain to text,Today flowers, tomorrow suffering. MASH the keyboard. I want. I need. I must.Why?I NEED to.I write, I bloom. I forget, I wither.Author, poet, craftsman. MASH the KEYboard. Type. Type. Type.Composed, insane,Worlds confined within my brain.Get out….
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The Toll of Becoming an Author
Do you know how much it actually takes to write a novel? It’s shocking how much goes into it. Even after writing a few, if I look too far ahead, I struggle to stay motivated. That’s because writing—especially novels—requires focus on the little things. It starts with a word, then a line, then a page,…
