• Be who you want to be

    Be who you want to be

    For a while there, I was putting “Aspiring” in front of Writer because I didn’t believe that I could call myself a “Writer” until I had published a book. I had this core belief that only the very special get to have the title of “Writer”. That only those people who managed get their book…

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  • The Importance of the “Day Job”

    Don’t quit your day job – not in the mean way older generations like to use this phrase to squash our ability to create but by making sure you keep the lights on so that you can be creative. I could not have written my book if I didn’t have my day job. That’s a…

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  • Publishing Options

    Publishing Options

    I am at the stage where I can start considering which option I want to go with for publishing Shadow Fox and the books that will be in the World of Tierra series to come. Traditional publishing is by far the hardest of the three option. It’s a lot of work for very much little…

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  • 2nd Draft Done!

    2nd Draft Done!

    Now, I am ready to move onto getting trusted friends to read through it. I need new eyes to read it and help me locate plot holes, improve character development, and catch the likely obvious spelling and grammar errors that I am sure are there. I am just going to let the other readers cook…

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  • Summer time madness

    Summer time madness

    It’s officially summer in the Shuswap and I have continued to be busy with traveling and recovering from traveling. I went to Alberta for a Summer Druid Camp with the Chinook Grove of the Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids. I had an amazing time and even shared a bit of the novel around the…

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  • Back from Otherworld

    Back from Otherworld

    Last weekend, I attended an arts festival put on by the Burning Man community called Otherworld and it takes place on Vancouver Island, BC. It was five days of magic and wonder and really hot weather. My brother invited me to join his Camp, Ironic Spin, which is a sound stage with amazing music.

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  • The Road So Far

    The Road So Far

    I don’t care if they write fanfiction for a niche audience or novels ready for publishing – if you write with the purpose of someone else reading it then you are a writer to me.

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  • Pause

    Pause

    I am on a pause from working on Shadow Fox (the title of Project Fox Hunt). I tried to start editing right away and found that I was overwhelmed by going right into it. I am taking a full month off from it in order to get space from it. This way I can go…

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  • The Rough Draft is done!

    The Rough Draft is done!

    Clocking in at 98,400+ words so far, the rough draft of Project Fox Hunt is done. I started this project in November and so much has changed in it that it doesn’t even resemble the original concept for the story anymore. So now the hard part comes into play. I have a lot of work…

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  • 90K words done!

    90K words done!

    This is a huge benchmark for me. My original goal for writing a novel was 90K words and now that I am here, I am excited to still have more of the story left to write. Writing was a bit of a struggle at the start of the week. It took longer to get going…

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