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What I Wish I Knew

Posted by Rachel on September 18, 2015 in audience, characters, discovery, musings, writing, writing tips |

I was brainstorming what to blog and thought putting together some writing resources might be helpful. Since I’m certain that’s been done before, the idea quickly morphed into more of a “what I wish I knew” when I was writing my first query-able novel. Hindsight is always 20/20, but maybe this post can help people […]

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Types of Writers

Posted by Rachel on August 31, 2015 in characters, description, dialogue, emotion, musings, outline, planning, plot, romance, structure, voice, writing |

It’s back to school time and I was thinking about that cafeteria map from Mean Girls and how it sort of relates to writing. Not the whole labeled cliques thing because we’re all one big, wordy family, but just that there are different types of writers. Everyone’s got a different way of writing and sometimes […]

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YA Disney Princesses

Posted by Rachel on April 15, 2015 in characters, musings |

Credit for this blog idea goes to Ashley, the best critique partner and friend a writer could ask for! I begged for ideas and she delivered! She suggested it might be cool to compare YA heroines to Disney heroines and I thought this was utterly brilliant. So, here are my assessments: Cinderella – America (The […]

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2014 Fall TV Round Up

Posted by Rachel on October 8, 2014 in characters, cliches, current event, musings, review |

Every Fall I get way too really excited about the new line-up of potential hit shows. Why? I’m always on the lookout for a new obsession and I tend to tune into every and any new show I might remotely be interested in. However, if the time slot is in the middle of a series […]

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