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✍🏾One Year Author Anniversary 📚

     I missed this post by a day, but yeah. The 25th marked one year since I made the decision to return to independent publishing. I am not new to online publishing, far from it. I've been published on and off since 2004--I was a baby author in training then--from fanfiction to poetry,--I wrote and love it all. I actually discuss my first journey in this post here.

What does my writing routine actually like?

When I write, I make sure to have three things on me at all times (if not all three, then at least one) 

My phone (The Notes feature is handy)

A notebook and pen/pencil

My Ipad

I write in the mornings and late into the night---whenever and wherever I can. There's no true routine to it. 

How do you handle burnout, writer’s block, or “this is trash” days?

    I'm learning to preserve ideas that don't work, characters who don't sing to my tune, and scenes that have no place. I collect them in a notebook for later projects. They will bear fruit after resting.

What themes or emotional ideas keep showing up in your stories?

    Loneliness, even from relationships/situationships is a huge theme in my work, intentional or no. I don't realize I've woven that idea into my work until I'm editing it. Desires from my teenage years show up in my adult work, too. Sounds strange, doesn't it?

What surprised you most about being a self-published author?

    People enjoy reading short stories. Seriously, they will read and love them. This makes me happy. 

What advice would you give your past self one year ago?

Keep going--it's worth it. You are magical. Your words prove it.

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