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 […]
Category: My Writing
Actionable writing advice and tips that aspiring writers can use for motivation in their creative career and journey.
What Will You Leave Behind to Become a Better Writer?
What are you willing to sacrifice? 🤔 I ended my podcast at the start of 2018. I ran The Vacant Lot, a podcast dedicated to the cartoon Hey Arnold!, as a culmination of years of love for the series, spanning the course of 18 months and 20 episodes. When I posted my farewell episode in January, I […]
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 […]
Outgrowing Your Writing Idols
Don’t bow down and worship idols. — Exodus 20:5  When I wrote Hey Arnold! fanfiction as a teen, there was an author whose work I admired. At that time, I had only just published my first completed story. But it was in script format, short, and suffered from the inclusion of an original character that took over the majority […]
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 […]