Every now and then, it’s really fun to write a simple, rambly post about books. Every now and then, it’s also fun to go on a camping trip. So this week, I’ve decided to combine the two. As you are reading this, I am in the mountains on a grand camping/hiking adventure. But by the…
Month: September 2021
Rewriting Adventures (Discovering Genres + Meet Pine Grove!)
One of my big goals for this summer was to reoutline/rewrite my ghost story. The first draft needed A LOT of work. Like, Chopping out whole characters and reassembling them or making a super complicated chart for all of the scenes. It was an adventure, to be sure. This adventure was also a very good…
Writing About Clothes (Breaking Clichés and Wearing Corsets)
You may have heard a little bit about it here and there, but one of my favorite non-writing hobbies is sewing. I’ve been sewing for a few years and have been making historical costumes for about a year now. I’ve been wanting to find some way to incorporate sewing into writing for a long time,…
Summer Adventures (Learning About Writing By Not Writing)
Summertime is over, and I’m honestly really sad. Summer 2021 zipped by like a bolt of lightning. Intense, crazy, and fast. Even though school has started and cold weather has sort of arrived, I’m still hanging onto the last threads of summer. This week, I thought I would talk about a few of the crazy…