I realized that I haven't finished a story in a year. Which seems kind of crazy, because in 2009, I wrote/finished three stories and started another which I finished last year. It's also a bit depressing, if you can imagine. Wondering if I've just completely lost my ability to write, wondering if I should move on from Mibba, etc, etc. But I love writing. I love making up stories. I don't want to...

So, as I was typing up that terrible old story of mine, I kept going back and saying to myself, I wonder what would happen if I tried to rewrite this scene. Or this story. So I did. Just a little bit. Not enough to make anything of it, but enough that I wanted to share with you what might have happened if Corothe were written now.I wrote two separate scenes. First, I wrote a new beginning and then...

Hey all!I figured, it being the middle of August and all, that I should probably do an End-of-the-summer update. I made a video a little while ago but since then I've thought of a bunch of other things I wanted to talk about so I decided to just make a journal.First of all, it's been really nice having the summer "off" sort of, from writing. My mind just went on vacation for a few months and it's...

A little while ago I made the two entries I wrote about college private. You know, I'm sure you guys didn't even notice (that's okay, haha, seriously, it is).For anyone that didn't know - I wrote a couple entries awhile back when I left (actually technically I dropped out, which makes me sound SO badass in my opinion) college. It was, truth be told, a really really hard time for me and I wrote...

I don't know how many of you keep up with my Formspring. If you do, you may have noticed that I just posted a long-winded answer to someone who asked about me and Brown University. I mentioned that I would be editing the first fifty pages of We Were Birds like mad.Well, I could really, really, really use your help.The first 50 pages of We Were Birds (actually 51 including cover sheet) is exactly...

I don't appreciate the things I've got. Well, I mean, I do, but not as much as I should. I know I'm always taking for granted the fact that people love my stories and comment on them. I'm always taking for granted the fact that I HAVE readers! I mean, I don't remember a time (okay, okay, I do but it was really long ago) when people didn't read my stories.Truthfully, I've become a little jaded.So,...

Often times I am looking to create a new layout for a story and need a perfect background. I spend hours combing photobucket and imageshack only to come up with nothing. I'm forced to use a background I probably already used before or one I'm not too thrilled with. It's so much work for something I'm not even 100% happy with.I have the feeling that there are other people like me, which is why I...

Well I have to make this 100 words long so I just want to say thanks to the Project Fiction folks for making me Author of the Month for January!I got all excited when they told me - I was really surprised! There are so many fabulous authors featured on Project Fiction, if you're ever looking for a great story, you can find one there. Everyone there is really nice, too. They even made me that...

Why hello there. Oh my god, that sounds creepy. Okay let me start over.Since Birds has ended, I've been in a bit of a writing slump. In The Garden of Blue Dreams and Lace & Bones didn't really work out for whatever reason. I've got a few ideas in my head but I'd really like to hear what people want me to write. I mean, Lament is going to be just about wrapped up in the next... oh, I don't...

I was an extremely entrepreneurial child. I was always hosting art shows, creating fake restaraunts, giving massages, doing gymnastic shows...I would make menus, artwork, programs, anything. It wasn't even really about the money. I just loved doing stuff like that, I know, weird, right?I don't know how many of you remember when I self-published my first finished work, I Still Remember on...

Writing, for me, began a long time ago. I've always been a kid with an enormous imagination. At recess, I was always the one playing pretend restaraunt with my best friends instead of building with legos.In 8th grade, all of the kids at my school had Macbooks. We never used these to do anything productive on them. Instead, my friends and I discovered this amazing site called Quizilla, where we'd...

Excuse my language, but HOLY FUCKING SHIT.You have no idea how much this means to me to win. I cannot believe WWB won overall best story. Anyway, congrats to ALL the people who even got nominated - it was a serious honor. This really makes me want to step up on WWB! I just hope the rest of it is just as good as the beginning. THANK YOU SO MUCH to those who voted. I LOVE YOU ALL. For real.

Well I was thinking that I'd like to sort of write down all the ideas in my head, you know, as a way to organize my thoughts.I don't have actual plans to write all of these, they're just what keep popping into my brain lately.I'll probably add more and delete some as time goes by. We shall see.Epic love storyInspired by Bethany, I have been talking about writing an epic love story for quiiiiite...

I know, I know...You all probably hate me right now for deleting Pale Moon.But here is the thing. I'm taking it down because in the future (college, probably) I am going to pick it back up again. When I do, though, I'm going to be expanding it into a Trilogy. I had the story separated into three separate parts of ten chapters.I was technically done with part one on Mibba, which one day will be...

First of all, let me just say,France was amazing!I went with a group from school but it wasn't a 'school thing.' There were five of us going, me and two of my friends, Kayla and her younger sister Perry, and the tour leader's son and his friend. That wasn't enough people in a group so we were put with two other groups, one group was from this Catholic school in Massachusetts and the other was from...

Hey hey hey!Strangely enough, people seemed to find my last journal helpful. I mean, hell yes, I'm helpful! This is probably one of the things I'm helpful at because um yeah, I'm really unhelpful when it comes to things like math and how to tie fancy knots, etc.Um first before I go into another rant/discussion I want to put on this journal a little disclaimer. Okay so, here goes. Um hi. I am not...

I've always wanted to talk about the inspiration for my stories, because I think inspiration is a really huge part of stories.And I'd like to talk a little about inspiration in general. Think of this as a sort of pep-talk for anyone who wants to know how I do what I do. Sort of?So. Shadows of the World.It's no surprise that supernatural plots have been popping up all over the place because of -...