Category: Writing
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_____ Is Hard
Recently, I finished my first read-through of Brontide and started my first round of content (big picture) edits. Today, I hit the “I can’t do this” wall. The problems feel overwhelming. I’m not sure if any of my ideas of how to fix them are any good. At my current speed, it seems like I’ll…
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Writing Light
Light and darkness. It’s something I think about as a Christian writer. We live in a sinful world. We live in darkness. And we need light. We need a Savior. We need the Light of the World. Stories are a unique way of communicating truths to a person and making them think about something. As…
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You Need a Writing Community
We all, to an extent, have the mental image of a writer tucked away in some sort of amazing writing nook, writing away with a keyboard, typewriter, or quill pen while drinking copious amounts of tea or coffee. They’re just writing a book by themselves in their own little world. After all, isn’t that the…
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Writing Update! (June-October)
So… I just realized that while I’ve been keeping my newsletter list up to date with a monthly writing recap, I haven’t done a writing update on the blog for a long time. Sorry… But anyways, here’s a quick summary of what happened in my writing life June-October! June: I had the goal of drafting…
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I’m Doing NaNoWriMo + A Tiny Bit about My New Book
I’m doing NaNoWriMo again this year! (If you don’t know what NaNo is, here’s a post I did a couple years ago about it) This will be my fourth NaNoWriMo and my sixth novel. And I’m taking a completely new approach to writing it. In the past, I have always outlined my novel. My outlines…
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Writing Resource: Adorning the Dark
Writing Resources are sort of like book reviews, except that they’re about non-fiction books related to writing! And today’s Writing Resource Highlight is Adorning the Dark by Andrew Peterson. publisher’s synopsis Making something beautiful in a broken world can be harrowing work, and it can’t be done alone. Over the last twenty years, Andrew Peterson has…
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Why I’m Doing NaNoWriMo, Despite the Odds of Failure
First off, if you don’t know what NaNoWriMo is, I wrote a post last year write before NaNo explaining what it is and some of my thoughts about it. You can read that here. So, like I’ve said in that post and in my post about doing Camp NaNoWriMo, I really love NaNoWriMo because of…
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The Dangers of Writing
Writing is a dangerous business. And I don’t mean dangerous in the fact that you have to know all sorts of weird, random facts, like how long a person could be knocked out, or that you might have to ward off crazy fans. I mean that writing is dangerous because it can be physically dangerous.…
Hailey Huntington 