I live in Toronto, and our city is home to the basketball team the Toronto Raptors. There is a delightful clip that emerged on the Internet of Raptor Serge Ibaka trekking through a winter day. This is Canada, mind you, and in late January the snow and the wind are all the more treacherous. Beautiful […]
Tag: writing
How to Stop the Addiction to Likes and Validation in Writing
I have an addiction. My drug of choice isn’t a controlled substance, and it can’t be bought in the stores or at the pharmacy. My drug is the little red circle that appears whenever I check my Wattpad account. It’s the email I receive notifying me when someone had liked, given kudos, or reviewed one […]
5 Reasons Writers Should Always Consistently Create
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]