The Comparison Game

Comparison can turn friends into adversaries. -Frank Sonnenberg Morning, lovelies! Hopefully you're having a lovely day and great start to your week. I'll be honest, my weekend and my Monday were rough. I had a pretty gnarly headache. Not a migraine, thankfully, but this nagging pain going right across the back of my skull and …

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Dirty Laundry

Good morning/afternoon/evening! I had considered continuing on with last week's blog post and talking about showing vs. telling, but there are probably 3.7 million blogs and YouTube videos that can carry you through without the superfluous opinion of yours truly. Instead, I thought I'd air some dirty laundry. It's all fair game today. Strap in. …

Tell v. Show

I hope you all forgave my absence. Just a short run down of what has been happening in my life: Two weeks ago I received a text message from my mom that she'd had to call an ambulance for my dad. This is, sadly, something I am used to. He's had health problems for my …

Helpful Nonfiction for Writers

I am my own muse; I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better. -Frida Kahlo Earlier today I tweeted a little about my Sunday: So yesterday was kinda crazy. We redecorated our bedroom and since it’s more spring-like than wintery in SC, we did our spring cleaning. But I …

Operation: Digital Declutter

Hi, I'm Aila. And I have a problem. Today's scheduled blog post was supposed to be about my other hobby: Weaving. You know, those big pretty things people sometimes hang on their wall? Yeah, I enjoy making them. But I'm home sick today (yesterday for you) and I don't feel like setting up the photography …

Self-Care Sunday: Five-Minute Miracles

Good afternoon, friends! I was posed a question at work the other day: Why do I write (even occasionally) about self-care? After all, I am an author. Shouldn't my blog be all about writing tips and information about self-publishing etc. etc. My response: A lot of authors, especially self-publishing authors, neglect themselves in some fashion. We work …