Let’s get one thing straight…the myth of the perfect first draft is right up there with the myth of comfortable stilettos. Cute idea. Never been real. Every time I open a blank document, the cursor blinks at me like it’s filing a complaint with HR. Suddenly I’m convinced I’ve never had a single coherent thought…
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THE EVERYDAY DISNEY VILLAIN ERA: Episode 1-Maybe I Can Relate to Maleficent
Welcome to The Everyday Disney Villain Era, where your life is less “hero’s journey” and more “mildly inconvenienced sorceress with a flair for ambiance.” This is not about being evil. This is about being theatrical. It’s about embracing the tiny, petty, dramatic behaviors that turn your daily life into a PG‑13 villain origin story, complete…
ADHD Series: The User Manual I’m Writing Out Of Spite – Hyper Fixation Lifecycle
Welcome to my new series where I slightly educate, rant, and make fun of myself through my ADHD brain takeovers. If I can’t make light of it then I might just fight it and that’s never gone well for me before. So here we go with my first blog of my ADHD series and the…
The Chaos Anthropologist – Installment No. 1: The Study of People Who Say “I’m Five Minutes Away”
There comes a moment in every woman’s life when she realizes she has accidentally become an expert in human chaos. Not by choice. Not by training. Simply by surviving group chats, dating apps, family gatherings, and the modern workplace. At some point, you stop asking “Why do people do this?” and start documenting it like…
THE PETTY OLYMPICS: A HIGH STAKES SPORT FOR LOW STAKES DRAMA
I didn’t create The Petty Olympics out of boredom or creativity or even a desire to be funny. No. I created it because I needed a structured, emotionally safe place to put all the tiny, ridiculous, irrational feelings that build up when someone breathes wrong near me. I needed an outlet that wasn’t therapy, wasn’t…
THE DELULU DIARIES: This Week I’m Getting My Life Together
Welcome to The Delulu Diaries, my newest series dedicated to the tiny, glittery lies I tell myself to function as a person. This is not a productivity blog or a self‑help column. This is a field study in feminine optimism, where we document the rituals, fantasies, and chaotic rebrands that carry us from one week…
Killer Heels Saturdays – Chapter 7: Dialogue That Bites Back
If plot is the runway, dialogue is the heel clicks that turn every head. It’s the sound of your characters announcing themselves, their wounds, their wit, their boundaries, their bad decisions, and all without a single paragraph of exposition. And when dialogue bites back, it doesn’t just entertain. It reveals. It exposes. It shifts power….
Killer Heels Saturdays: Ch 6 — Writing Rituals & Red Soles: How I Actually Get Words on the Page
There’s this myth that writers glide into their desks every morning like swans, open their laptops, and effortlessly pour out brilliance while sipping something herbal and morally superior. I, Me. Myself… am just not that writer. Not even close. My process is more “creative gremlin with good snacks” than “ethereal literary goddess.” But it works….
The Emotional Archive: How Women Remember
Women don’t just remember events. Our memories aren’t files, they’re texture, colors, and tiny altars we carry inside us. We remember temperature, tone, the way someone’s voice dipped on the last syllable, and the exact shade of sky when something shifted inside us. Women’s memories aren’t linear timelines, they’re more like emotional archives. A private…
Killer Heels Saturdays — Chapter Five: Character Development “Building a Cast With Bite, Boundaries, and Big Main Character Energy”
There comes a moment in every book draft where your characters are no longer just names in a Google Doc and you begin to realize they’re roommates in your brain. They have opinions. They have emotional allergies. They have better boundaries than you on a Tuesday afternoon. And suddenly, you’re not just writing a story….
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