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A Good Ole-Fashioned Novel Revision Update

💬 Little Writing Victories

Let’s Write Your Novel. Together.

Moody and Cool: My Experience Getting Professional Author Photos

Reframing the Attitude Around Querying

A Long Awaited Yes

Hold It All Loosely

Mystery Girl Summer

Letting the Nostalgia Have Its Way with Me

"The fear always shows you what you want.”

Starting in the Middle of the End

“What I've learned about myself as a writer is that I'll move aside anything for it.”

How to Sort Through Beta Reader Feedback

Things Men Say to Me at Work (Part 2)

"I may not be able to tell you where anybody I've ever hired went to college, but I can tell you if they worked in the service industry or not because I tend to favor that on resumes."

A Look Back On | My First Waitressing Job

I’ve become one of those people who say “If I can write a novel, then so can you.”

It's Waiting Season

“Everyone comes into a restaurant, everyone comes into a cafe and if you're open to it, you can meet the most interesting people with stories."

💬 How to Bring Your Inner Child's Playfulness to the Page

Seven Months Sober in the Service Industry

“Go work for Starbucks for two years and work on your novel on the side. What's wrong with that?”

"Trust in the process" might sound like a cliché but it's so damn true

Writing a novel about working in a country club while still working in a country club

From the Archives | On Creativity Fostered in the Private World of Sisterhood and Teenage Obsessions

“As long as you can fit in some kind of writing life, it really doesn't matter what you're doing [for work.]”

In the Weeds: The Podcast

Appreciating the Grunt Work: A Book List