February Ruminations
At the beginning of February I took a writing class at the literary center in Minneapolis. It was more on the writing business side of things than actually a writing class, but it felt great...
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Life Lately // February
I’ve been feeling a little disconnected from the blog lately, so I wanted to sit down and have a little chat and get caught up. 1 // I went to a writing class a little over...
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January Ruminations
January was an eventful month. We said goodbye to my sister’s dog Wolf and I was focused on Little One’s recovery from an injury. My mind was also on a couple of projects from work,...
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10 Things That Made Me Happy This Week // Book Week
A fun weekend at The Palmer House Hotel with Ghost Stories Ink. Holding a book that includes a story that I wrote. A fluffy puppy. Little One’s hair is looking Cav-like just in time for the...
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The Weekend // The Palmer House Hotel
Happy Wednesday! I thought I’d share a little about my weekend with you, with some exciting news at the end. This weekend I went to the Palmer House Hotel, which is said to be haunted....
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Writing Retreat Weekend
This weekend I ventured to The Outing Lodge–a beautiful bed and breakfast located in Stillwater, MN (a cute city that’s super close to God’s country, aka, Wisconsin)–for a writing retreat that was organized by SCBWI...
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The 2014 Directive // November
We are down to the final two months of The 2014 Directive! How crazy is that? With only two months left for the year, I feel kind of bad creating a goal that I’ve already...
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Ten Years
Senior All Night Party, June 2014 Ten years ago I graduated from high school. Ten years. (Am I really that old already?) It really doesn’t feel like it should be ten years. I swear it...
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Remind Me Next Year… { NaNoWriMo }
For me, story ideas often start as a character sketch, a location or a line of dialogue. Something will come to me and I’ll sit with it for a few days, mulling it over. During...
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Love List (for my current WIP)
Last August I wrote a love list about the WIP (work in progress) that I was working on at the time. As I worked on it, I found myself going back to that list when...
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