There’s a dream version of my life where I have long days seated at a desk on a terrace overlooking the ocean, lost in draft pages, and evenings catching up on my reading list. A life where I have enough financial runway to allow my writing to take as long as it needs. Unfortunately, it’s a dream, for now, and …
So I haven’t done this in a while because I’ve been busy studying, moving, settling down, and writing up a storm. I recently finished my contemporary romance, and I’m deep in the querying trenches. When time allows, I have been reading behind the lines and thought to get myself back on track by initiating my 2026 reading challenge. I started …
There’s a persistent myth about writing novels that I’ve never quite related to: the idea that writers are carried forward by inspiration alone. If the idea is good enough, the words will come easily and consistently, and momentum will sustain itself. While that does happen, in many cases, that’s rarely how it works. I recently found myself in a strong …
Every year, writers make the same resolution: write more. And by February of every year, most of those writing goals fade. In 2026, I’m thinking differently about writing goals as part of a larger arc of moving from draft to publication. Finishing a draft is only one stage of the journey. If we want to grow as authors, our goals …
Sometime last month, I fell into one of the most intense creative bursts of my writing life. It came out of nowhere and completely rewired my November and December. The idea for the story had been playing at the back of my mind for a while, but I was completely buried in work. As soon as the project ended in …