Happy New Year! As we start the New Year, I thought I would write a little about something I find myself currently struggling with. As I previously mentioned, I’m hard at work on final edits for Madame Vampire, a novel I hope to release by this spring. As I have been going over and reading the…
As a writer, one of the questions I get asked often is this: “How does someone become a writer?” And it feels like a loaded question, although it really isn’t. The answer is quite simple. To become a writer, one must simply… Wait for it… Write. That’s it. That’s all someone needs to do to…
I’ll admit that I’ve been having trouble making myself sit down and write every day recently. I’ve got a really cool book that I’m working on, but the actual writing just wasn’t happening. I usually do well when I’m writing with NaNoWriMo, though, because there’s accountability. So I decided to look around for a piece…
It looks like I’m getting better at keeping this blog updated, and I am trying. Today, I want to talk about something that I’m sure I’ve mentioned previously, probably a lot: the importance of reviews, particularly to authors like me, although I’m sure they’re also still important even to authors like Neil Gaiman. First, for an…
Anyone who’s approached me and asked me about writing usually results in me saying that the most important rule in writing is the simplest: 1. Write. That’s taken from Neil Gaiman’s rules of writing, which I have on a poster and hung above my main writing nook in my house. This is probably the best…
Today I had tickets for the Dublin hop-on hop-off bus tour. I wasn’t sure I would like it, but it was very convenient and the buses run so regularly that I never had to wait for one. I ended up making two loops around the city because I was told to go to Kilmainhaim Gaol…