Maintaining a blog is difficult. It’s a lot of work without a lot of love – though the few people that I have interacted with here on WordPress have all been amazing, kind, and helpful. So that’s why I stick around. My goal is to post every Tuesday. Sometimes I’m on a winning streak, and…
The Everlasting Setting
Lately I’ve been reading, “On Trails” by Robert Moor. If you haven’t read it, his book quite literally discusses trails: Their history, symbolism, cultural significance – essentially everything you would ever want to know about trails. In one section, he discusses the significance of trails to Native Americans. Trails held a much deeper significance than…
Finding Passion in a Career
The road to a solid career has been a rocky one for me. When I was in college, I switched majors (and universities) multiple times, consistently struggling with class. Nothing that the universities could offer seemed all that exciting to me. At the time, I just thought it was my major. But if I’m going…
A Reader’s Discovery – A Writer’s Tool
For some time I had really grappled with the idea of ‘genre.’ There were genres that I liked and genres that I read because family members read them. I come from a family of avid readers, and my mom and grandma can read books with startling voracity. The books they read are put into a…
Question to My Readers
Sorry I haven’t been very active these past few weeks. If you’ve been following my blog at all, you know I’ve been going through some pretty stressful career changes and it’s been…exhausting. Anyway, I’ve been trying to explore other ways to express my love of writing. In the book I published titled, “Lost Farms of…
How Stress Affects Writing
After making a HUGE career change, I anticipated more flexibility and free time than what my old 9 – 5 job could give me. Sure, I definitely have the flexibility and free time that I desired. But I’m so stressed out about work that my free time doesn’t really feel free at all. I decided to…
Do Writers Choose Genre?
One of the biggest writing challenges I face is what to write. It seems kind of silly doesn’t it? I have about a million ideas racing through my head but I don’t seem to be passionate enough about an idea to follow it through. It’s like I’m in a writing dead zone right now – have…
Top 5 Lessons From Bad Writer
Originally posted on Allison Maruska:
I have an alter-ego on Twitter. Her name is Bad Writer. She doesn’t have a million followers or viral tweets or anything like that. She exists merely to be the public face of my sarcastic side. And since I talk to writers a lot on Twitter, she focuses on writing.…
