New Favorite Artist

OKAY SO ALL MY POSTS HAVE BEEN ABOUT WRITING. *starts talking like a California girl* And, like, really depressingly serious. I mean, what is with that.

*starts talking normally again* I have found a cartoonist chic who is so flippin' amazing and hilarious I can't even control myself. SO I HAVE DECIDED TO SHARE SOME OF MY FAVORITES WITH YOU.

Her name is C Cassandra.

And she is amazing.

5 Ways to Fail NaNoWriMo (and how to win next year)

After many years of deliberating over whether or not I wanted to try National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), I decided to give it a go this year.

And of course I chose the worst year to do it.

Senior year of high school.
PSEO.
Working.
College prep.
LIVING, for goodness sake.

Writing in the Moment

The secret of it all is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment - to put things down without deliberation - without worrying about their style - without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote - wrote, wrote... By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.

-Walt Whitman

The Importance of Being a Writer Who Reads

There are writers I have come across who believe that in order to be the best writer possible, you can't read any books. *raises eyebrows* 

Obviously we all agree that's ridiculous. Or at least, that's what I think. 

Let's put up a hypothetical situation (I love making hypothetical situations...). There is a girl named Jane. She loves to write, or at least, that's what she tells herself. Once she sits down to begin, she wonders why the heck she ever wanted to do this in the first place. The page sits in front of her. Her pen stares up at her in defiance. "I dare you to pick me up!" it yells. And she just sits there. For hours. 

When asked about writing tips, Jane was quoted as saying, "Don't read books. When you read, it fills your head up with all those other authors' ideas and phrases. When you go to write, then, all you will be able to do is copy them."