Kind of a Big Deal
I got a lot of good news the past few months!
… More Kind of a Big Deal
I got a lot of good news the past few months!
… More Kind of a Big Deal
Writing has not been my highest priority this week, which wasn’t any good since this is the most inspired and motivated I’ve been to write in months. Monday I finally felt like I wasn’t forcing words onto the page and then the rest of the day and Tuesday went to Hades. Wednesday I had to … More Thursday: This isn’t really about writing
Hello! I have been on quite the little sabbatical since my last Five for Friday post on the 18th–nearly a month!! I’ll be honest, I wasn’t so busy working on my novel or editing to write a blog post. I basically haven’t written anything since then. I spent about 20 minutes editing my first-born, which … More Five For Friday (actually just 3): Holidays, Homes, and Harried Living
What an incredible semester this has been! I finished the year, turned in all my final portfolios, and finished registering for the spring on December 2nd, my 29th birthday. I can hardly believe it’s over and I’ve finished my first year of graduate school and my first semester as an MFA student. I can’t even … More Five For Friday: Semester’s End
We had a guest speaker in a recent MFA class–Intro to Writing as a Profession. She was really great, funny, clever, and an alumni of our program whose fiction, though not yet published, has made the finalist cuts for some note-worthy awards. She shared a near-universal frustration with trying to get her novel published and … More My Name is Faerl Marie and I Write Chick Lit.
Happy Friday, Y’all! Several really awesome things are happening in the second half of this month. I hope you’ll join me for all the fabulous festivities! The Golden Apple turns 2 on the 31st! That’s right, this time two years ago I was freaking out about self-publishing my first novel, releasing my first progeny into … More Five for Friday: Birthday Par-tay!