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July 10, 2025

Day 11 of Becoming a Published Author and a Big Box Book Store Liked My IG Post

Something kind of awesome happened today! I’m a Canadian. Born and raised on maple syrup and sorry’s. Well, Indigo, Canada’s version of Barnes and Nobel and whatever popular powerhouse of a bookstore you might be familiar with, has independent Instagram’s… Continue reading

July 9, 2025

Day 10 of Becoming a Published Author and We’ve Done Some Collateral Writing

Today I felt myself hit my stride. I wrote over 1000 words, which isn’t typical for me, and it means tomorrow will be much easier to hit my goal. This way if it’s a tough day and the words aren’t… Continue reading

July 8, 2025

Day 9 of Becoming a Published Author-Back at it With More to Come

I’m pushing myself to not fall into bad habits again. I have restarted this project way too many times and the urge to restart again is rearing its ugly head. I won’t be giving in. The opportunity to start… Continue reading

July 7, 2025

A Rough Monday on Day 8 of Becoming a Published Author

Writing is hard. I had every intention of writing some more today. I was going to specifically work on a different project so that I could feel like I was moving along on everything I’m trying to accomplish.… Continue reading

July 6, 2025

Milestone Moment on Day 7 of Becoming a Published Author

Happy flipping Sunday y’all. It is a beautiful day! Not because the sun is shining and the summer is summering here in Canada. But because ya girl did what she said she was going to do. That’s… Continue reading

July 5, 2025

Day 6-Becoming a Published Author

Sometimes I wish I wasn’t a panster. I tried, genuinely. I gave outlining a go and it didn’t make the writing process any easier. And honestly, it takes the mystery out of it. I like finding out what… Continue reading

July 4, 2025

Day 5 of Writing My Debut Epic Fantasy

Today was a damn good day. I was worried when I woke up and pulled out my laptop that I had completely lost the momentum I had boasted about yesterday. But it honestly turned into the best writing… Continue reading

July 3, 2025

Becoming a Published Author-Day 4

I’m on the right track. Or at the very least it feels that way. Something about creating this blog has been a motivation to show up every day and reach my goal. I have a word count goal set,… Continue reading

June 30, 2025

Becoming a Published Author-Day One

I have a goal. This goal isn’t all that unique and a great deal of people have or have had this goal well before I even existed. And yet, I’m still going to write about it. I’m going to pretend… Continue reading

June 9, 2025

Write Just Because You Can

It’s been a while (que 2001 alt-rock band Staind’s “It’s been a while”) I’ve been stuck. I feel like I’m probably not the only one whose going through this or has gone through this or will go through this in… Continue reading