What Does Writing Look Like To You? What Does Writing Look Like To You? By Megan Cutler | April 15, 2019 | Comments 1 comment Sometimes, I wonder what people think of me. I’m sure I strike an odd sight. I spend a lot of time parked in front of my computer screen, reading over or adding to strange documents. My secondary screen holds a smattering of digital post-it-notes. They often grow out of control before I cull their numbers. … Read More Read More
Announcing a New Project – Once Upon a Dream Announcing a New Project – Once Upon a Dream By Megan Cutler | April 8, 2019 | Comments 3 comments In 2011, our family decided to take a Christmas trip to Belize. It was shortly before I started blogging regularly, so I’ve since written a great deal about the trip. A few weeks before the trip, an idea came to me. The timing makes it easy to date its origin (unlike some of my other … Read More Read More
How To Reclaim A Bad Week How To Reclaim A Bad Week By Megan Cutler | April 1, 2019 | Comments 4 comments It’s been one of those weeks. You know the kind. The perfect storm of awful. One innocent little thing sets the dominos in motion and, suddenly, you can’t stop the cascade failure no matter how hard you try. On Monday, the grocery store is extra busy, which puts you behind schedule. But it’s no big … Read More Read More
The Challenge of Finding a Perfect House The Challenge of Finding a Perfect House By Megan Cutler | March 25, 2019 | Comments 2 comments As previously established, I’m bad at life updates. Confession: a big part of the reason I so rarely write these is that my personal life feels pretty boring. I worry no one really cares about what’s going on during my day-to-day. Especially since I don’t have cats. I figure people would rather hear about Domerin’s … Read More Read More
Why I Mourned the Opportunity Rover Why I Mourned the Opportunity Rover By Megan Cutler | February 25, 2019 | Comments 2 comments When I was a kid, my greatest wish was to go to Mars. Astronomy was my first love, you see. For as long as I can remember, I’ve been fascinated with everything that lay beyond the sky. I spent hours studying constellations. What they look like. How to find them. Where their names come from. … Read More Read More
The Best of My Favorite Character’s Soundtracks The Best of My Favorite Character’s Soundtracks By Megan Cutler | February 18, 2019 | Comments 0 Comment I’ve mentioned before how big a role music plays in the creative process. I have different soundtracks for different tasks and novel projects, depending on what I’m working on at the time. Sometimes I use music to get in the mood, sometimes to find a character’s voice, and sometimes to set the tone of a … Read More Read More
The Exciting Conclusion Of My Epic Tea Countdown The Exciting Conclusion Of My Epic Tea Countdown By Megan Cutler | February 4, 2019 | Comments 0 Comment Last week, I wrote about the DavidsTea advent calendar my husband bought me for December 2018. It’s filled with 24 different bags of tea. And if you follow my blog, you’ll know that tea is one of my favorite things to talk about. After covering the calendar’s first twelve teas, I worried I had droned … Read More Read More
I Counted Down to Christmas With Tea I Counted Down to Christmas With Tea By Megan Cutler | January 28, 2019 | Comments 2 comments It’s been awhile since I wrote about tea. Anyone who follows me on social media will be aware, however, that my husband brought home an extra special gift for me in November. It was the DavidsTea advent calendar for 2018. Davids puts out an advent calendar every year. I always stare longingly at the description, … Read More Read More
What NaNoWriMo Can Do For Experienced Writers What NaNoWriMo Can Do For Experienced Writers By Megan Cutler | January 14, 2019 | Comments 1 comment Anyone who’s ever strung more than ten words of story together has heard of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month). It’s been around as long as I’ve been on the Internet. It probably isn’t going anywhere any time soon. For those unfamiliar, NaNoWriMo takes place in November. The idea is to write an entire novel (50,000 … Read More Read More
A List of Goals for 2019! A List of Goals for 2019! By Megan Cutler | January 7, 2019 | Comments 3 comments 2018 was a busy and exciting year. But it pales in comparison with what I have planned for 2019. I usually use my first post of the year to look forward at my goals as well as backwards at my accomplishments. But I had so much to say about 2018, I decided to split the … Read More Read More