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    A Little Writing Update

    If I’m being completely honest, this year hasn’t gone quite the way I imagined it would. At the beginning of the year, I had a plan. I had goals, self-imposed deadlines, and a pretty clear idea of where I wanted to be with my writing by now. Needless to say, not all of those deadlines have been met. This has…

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    In between drafts and days

    As I continue working on my second book, while also querying my first, and balancing a full-time job, I’ve found myself thinking more and more about what it actually means to be a writer in between everything else. Because the truth is… it’s not always as simple as just “making time to write.” Some days I come home with ideas…

  • Short stories

    Love in the middle, where Hearts collide

    As the sun began to set, casting a warm orange glow over the landscape, Scott and Genevieve embarked on their journey to meet in the middle. Scott’s fingers drummed a rhythmic pattern on the steering wheel as he gazed out at the endless stretch of highway. The GPS’s monotone voice periodically interrupted his well currated playlist, guiding him through the…

  • Book reviews

    ARC Review: The King’s Card by Erin Archer

    Release Date: September 22nd, 2025  Thanks to Erin Archer for providing an ARC of The King’s Card. This romantasy book is everything I was hoping for, and sooo much more. It’s a sweeping tale filled with fated mates, Beauty and the Beast vibes, magic, sacrifice, a touch of court intrigue that keeps you turning the pages late into the night…

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    Ways to end your novel

    As I am entering the final stages of my book, I thought it was fitting to do some research about the various endings a book can have. Because I began to wonder how will it end? There are so many possibilities. Will it be a stand alone, will I continue and make it a series?  This and many things need…

  • Short stories

    The Whispers of Ferragosto

    The August sun beat down on Rome with merciless intensity, turning the city into a furnace. Matteo, found little joy in the impending celebrations of Ferragosto. To him, it was nothing more than a gaudy display of wealth and power by the city’s elite, a stark contrast to the struggles faced by the common folk. As the son of a…

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    Create the perfect playlist for your book

    There are some things I enjoy while writing, it could be something big from seeing how the story involves before my eyes to something small like creating a moodboard on pinterest or even a playlist for that one particular book you’re writing.  So lets talk about that last part, creating a book related playlist. You can easily just create one…

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    Words to use instead of “Very” ; a cheat sheet

    This is probably something everyone stumbles into when writing a story. I know I do, sometimes I overuse the word very(like a lot) and then I’m trying to find a website with every other word I could use instead of it, which takes a lot of time. So now when I’m getting back to trying to write frequently, I decided…

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    Writer’s block: what is it and how to overcome it.

    What is a writer’s block? Every writer will deal with it eventually, it manifests in different ways in different writers. No matter how it manifests, all variants of a writer’s block share the same issue: willing to write, and an inability to do so. Specifically, it’s an inability to get into the flow of writing. The moment you set your fingers…