I hesitated in writing this blog post because I always thought when it finally came time to write about how I got a literary agent it would be an epic of strife and turmoil. And yes, while there was some of that, when you boil it down, I got my agent mostly due to luck. […]
The Most Common Advice I Hear for Beginning Writers and What I Have to Add
I started writing when I was young and I would obsess over the question: What advice do you give young writers. I would hunt down interviews, scour YouTube, and search blog posts to find how all types of authors would answer. Want to know what I found? A lot (and I mean a lot) say […]
How Worldbuilding Should be Like Glitter
Okay, so a quick story. When I was in color guard (it’s a team sport where you dance and throwing flags as visuals for the marching band), one season we wore costumes with glitter. And no matter how many times I washed it, glitter would get everywhere. It would dust the bus seats, freckle my […]