Author of Young Adult and Teen Books
This is the current book that I’m working on right now. It’s still a struggle to get through, but I think I’m at least happy with the first chapter. Tell me what you think. Chapter 1 The moon glowed eerily outside the large estate and cast long beams of light through the window as it …
Character profiles can be lifesaving when you are trying to determine how your character would react to a certain situation. Keeping your character consistent throughout your story and even planning out their character arcs ahead of time can help you in plotting your story. Perhaps you don’t want an event that changes your character to …
Our literacy specialist came to my classroom to teach a lesson to my 6th graders, and she brought with her articles about cloning. We were about to enter into argumentative writing, and this was the perfect way to have them read and write about an informational text. She then suggested that if they were interested …
Have I been busy? Yes, yes I have. Have I been writing? Of course! Am I working on a new book? Well…. I know that I said that I was going to work on my young adult novel that I sat aside over a year ago, but while I have been working on it, I’ve …
I decided that it was time to go back to writing novels again. I miss writing the YA novels and Tween novels. The one that I have sitting on a thumb drive has been waiting to be finished for almost 4 years now. I’m not even certain if I can remember how I wanted it …
Lately the headlines in my newsfeed has been about AI, and how it will be able to replace humans when it comes to creating written content. Is it possible that a computer program can create written content better than a human? When I think of writing, I think of something personal, whether that personal is …
I’ve been extremely frustrated lately with the fact that when I sit down with every intention to write in the evenings, I can never find that spark of inspiration. What’s the deal? All day at work, I mull over ideas in my head and I’m certain that as soon as I’m home I will put …
I have so much writing to catch up, yet I can never find the time. I have sat down at the laptop multiple times today, but even going over all of my lists of ideas, nothing seemed to jump out at me with inspiration wanting to be placed on the page.
Sorry for the MIA. So much has happened since my last blog post. I lost my domain name. Apparently some foreign retail store now has it. They are benefitting from the traffic that I had worked many years to create. I’m mad about that, but I refuse to pay them for the return of my …
It has been some time since I wrote or things have been normal for me. We have been currently displaced and will be for some time, though I do hope by next week we will have some sense of normalcy until we can find a permanent place to call home. I didn’t think that I’d …
