At the start of this year, I made a very specific but overly unlikely goal. I want to buy a new car, I said. And I want to pay for it with writing. At the time of that statement, I was blogging regularly but otherwise not actively writing. And to be honest, my...
Something you might not know is that I actually went to college for writing. My aunt gave me a journal for my tenth birthday. It was yellow with little blue flowers on it. I don't know what prompted her to pick that gift for me, but she's always had an odd...
Catch up here & here. I didn't know where to start. I'm a little embarrassed to admit that to you since, you know, I graduated with a degree in Creative Writing. But here's the thing. I don't think there's any right way to start the process. I think you have...
It was fall of 2009. I was miserable working for a temp agency inputting data for an international distributor of electric components in a DOS system. Yeah, it was as exciting as it sounds. That was job number 6 after only graduating a year and a half before. To...
I've decided to make the book thing into sort of a series. To sit here and just tell you how I did it is only half the story. It's not as simple as just following things step by step. At least it wasn't for me. So sit back, get comfortable. Here we go. ...