Things to remember if you're a first-time author:

✨ One sentence at a time is still progress
✨ Plotter or panster, every first draft is messy
✨ Progress doesn't always mean word count
✨ You do NOT have to write chronologically
✨ Always remember what drove you to write your story

#WritingCommunity

Carl Sagan nailed it back in 1995.

At that stage of writing a new story where the scenes come fast and furious and I can't get them all down fast enough 😂

I would like to speak up today for the trans community.

You see, I know a bit of what it’s like to be politically scapegoated. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941, suddenly anyone in America who had any amount of Japanese ancestry became suspect. Politicians preyed upon ignorance and fear. /1

Create.
Uplift those you can.
And a Buddhist proverb to remember when you feel overwhelmed:

Tend the garden you can reach.

Trying to write that first book while being a full time RN is challenging. Nursing takes so much out of you. 5 yrs of trying, I'm getting to a place where I can devote the proper time for my stories. But routines are hard when you never had them.

The number one advice any & every writing professional can & will give you is this:

DO NOT BE AFRAID TO SUCK.

You have spent years reading books, watching movies & TV, developing taste to know good from bad. NO ONE GETS TO READ YOUR WRITING UNTIL YOU LET THEM. Trust your taste & write fearlessly.

Sums up the current state of the US politics

I for one want to know why Ares is mad at Zeus in
#KAOS
. The list of possibilities is way to long. And then Hera calling for the troops? the use of 'darling' aside... Ares is Hera's kid and War. I need this story.

Feels like I'm just posting to the void since I'm just getting started here, but why not. I write a weekly newsletter, and this week I write about how far away from reading and critical thinking we’ve come. It's lacking in our education, COVID learning loss, social media attention spans, all of it.

Got the bug to write a Greek Myth inspired, Modern Setting action story where Ares is the main protagonist. There is never enough Ares in my view. The God of War is so much more than what is portayed.