Mary is a young adult writer and archaeologist. By day she teaches at a local college, and by night she writes about the adventures of adolescence.
The enemies-to-lovers romance trope is a classic, but it can be tricky. If you’re working on a love story, here are the key elements of doing it right!
Could perfectionism be holding you back? Might you fear that writing something bad is worse than writing nothing? If you’ve been struggling to get your writing career off the ground, maybe perfectionism is your enemy.
Happy New Year! I can’t believe we’re here already, but I say that every year. My writing life didn’t progress as linearly as I expected in…
There is an ancient Chinese proverb that says, “Extreme joy turns to sorrow.” Maybe they had the post-holiday blues too. It’s pretty common to be riding…
Do you reach for rom-coms to give yourself a relaxing, enjoyable escape from your day? Do you love to laugh and fall in love? I’m also…
Hey writers! Do you plan to work over the holiday season? Or, do you feel pre-guilty for even contemplating not doing it? Writing over the holidays…
Congratulations, you made it to the end of NaNoWriMo! It was a big commitment, and whether or not you hit your word goal, you made major…
We’re all here because we want to publish a book we’ve written and have others pay to read it. Receiving money for entertaining or informing is…
Anyone who’s ever tried to crack the nut of writing fiction for profit (i.e., as a career) has probably started and stopped more than once. For…
Novels are rarely, if ever, one-man shows. The protagonist always interacts with others. Sometimes it’s another protagonist and other times it’s a minor character he meets…