An Aruvalia Chronicles Project Update

An Aruvalia Chronicles Project Update

Time is a slippery thing these days. It feels like every time I blink, a couple months slide through my fingers before I notice. That means some of my regular updates have fallen by the wayside, though that was never my intention. For example, I haven’t written a proper Aruvalia Chronicles update since March of …

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Should You Write Every Day?

Should You Write Every Day?

Writing advice is an interesting wormhole. There is so much out there, and much of it is contradictory. Add to that the fact that writing advice often gets condensed into ‘helpful’ shorthand that makes it easy to misinterpret, and it can be difficult to know which advice you should actually follow. But the writing advice …

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Introducing Duality – Book 4 in the Celestial Serenade!

Introducing Duality – Book 4 in the Celestial Serenade!

Every time I’ve tried to write a standalone novel, it grows a sequel mid-way through the first draft. Not that I’m complaining. I’ve always been a fan of fantasy and sci-fi series – my bookshelves can attest to that. I just never anticipated I would write anything longer than one book or, maybe, three. Of …

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Freebie Mondays: the Phases of Dreamers Do Lie

Freebie Mondays: the Phases of Dreamers Do Lie

I decided to do something interesting (and a tiny bit dangerous). I opened an old draft of one of my novels and used Word’s comparison feature to examine how much it changed. For those that aren’t familiar with this particular feature, it essentially highlights in red every change made between the different versions of the …

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