I got an email notifying me of a private message on my fanfiction.net account. It read as followed: Hi; I noticed in your profile, that one of your favorite stories is Hey Arnold. I wrote a few Hey Arnold stories a while back. Have you read any of them? If not, when you have time, […]
Category: Evergreen
Content about the practice of writing that will always be relevant to helping a writer hone his or her craft.
Be Embarrassed, Make Mistakes, Keep Writing
I had my first guest post published in 2018, on the blog Live, Write Thrive. Prior to this, I had been posting exclusively on my personal website and on Medium. When I heard guest posting was a reliable way to gain a readership and build an audience, I set on my way to craft guest posts […]
Writer! Don’t Do it For the Money
When I was a child, my top 3 career choices were actor, writer, and mad scientist. After I realized the first and last option were probably not going to pan out, I put all my focus on becoming an author. In the 6th grade we had Career Day, and an actual author came to speak […]
Know Your Writing Focus
In effort to make friends and meet more people within my city, I joined the Toronto chapter of Geek Girl Brunch. GGB is a social event where women who embrace the quirkier side of pop-culture – whether it be it video games, Doctor Who, Steven Universe, etc. – come together with the common goal of eating brunch and getting […]
What Fanfiction Has Taught Me About Writing
Originally published at writefarmlive.com on October 17, 2018. A co-worker noticed the Arnold figurine on my work desk. “You like Hey Arnold?” “I adore this show,” I blurted out, a bit too enthusiastically for a Monday morning. “Oh cool — I used to love the show as a kid,” she replied. That was the extent of our […]