The other day, I was asked an interesting question. Do I think that a protagonist or love interest can have too many flaws? For me, I think it depends on what the flaws are. Is this person selfish? Are they Read more
Recently, I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing. For my final capstone piece, I had to write a 15-page short story, so I thought I’d experiment a little in the suspense genre. Here is the result. Read more
Often times, I’m asked where my inspiration comes from – most authors get that question. And most authors have similar answers. We get our inspiration from everywhere. We get our ideas from everywhere. Ideas are never the problem – the Read more
Last September, I attended the Dreamspinner Author Workshop in Orlando. It’s my haven conference—friends, authors, family coming together to talk about books and ideas, it’s seriously amazing. But the one thing that conference can’t do for me, is cure my Read more
I would like to tell you a story—probably a good thing for an author to do, right? This is the story of a girl who never had any interest in being an author. She wanted to write astrophysics modeling software. Read more
My husband and I have a difference of opinion on this subject, and I’ve seen around Facebook, other people do too. When you get to a point in a book that you know you have no interest in finishing it, Read more