• Never Finished?

    Never Finished?

    Hi All! Happy Wednesday. I hope all of your weeks are going well. My Dad and I talked about our favorite books and endings the other day. My Dad made a comment that’s stuck in my head. He doesn’t finish a book he loves because he doesn’t want it to end.That surprised me, and I…

  • My Favorite Classic Books

    My Favorite Classic Books

    Hi all I’m starting off the week with a collection of my favorite classics. What classic literature do you enjoy? Or not enjoy? Personally, I don’t care for The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald or Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. But there’s a few I really love.

  • 3rd Person POV…

    3rd Person POV…

    There are two different types of third-person POV. The first subdivision is the third-person omniscient. I love using Lemony Snicket’s series A Series of Unfortunate Events. Mostly because the narrator creeped me out as a kid. But he was a compelling narrator in the third person omniscient. He had opinions and was not directly involved in…

  • Writing In A Certain Point of View

    Writing In A Certain Point of View

    It is somewhat likely we’ve all read books from different points of view (POV). Whether we recognize the difference initially might be another question, especially when it comes to third-person omniscient or third-person limited. Some even argue that every written word has a POV, even factual notations.

  • 10 Books to Read: The Well Known Books

    10 Books to Read: The Well Known Books

    Hi All! Starting back up with a simple list of ten books I recommend. I have a hard time picking favorites so I figured I’d pick ten books I know popped up into main stream media.

  • A Brief Hiatus

    A Brief Hiatus

    Hi All! So I’m not going to be posting much over the next week or so. We were hit by a tornado so life is kinda crazy right now. Everyone is safe and fine. Just car damage, minimal apartment damage and waiting on the power to return. I’ll keep you posted in the coming weeks.

  • What Kind of Music To Listen to?

    What Kind of Music To Listen to?

    Happy Friday! Today I keep thinking about the concert I went to last night. My fiancé and I saw Shinedown. I know a couple songs, but rock’s never really been my music. Although after being with my fiancé for seven years, I’ve gained a growing appreciation for it.

  • Sillmanite Inspiration

    Sillmanite Inspiration

    Hello all! I hope everyone is having a good week. As I sat trying to write the next post for this week. I kinda hit a wall. So I did what I always do and researched what I was stuck on. As I researched ideas for writing a blog when you’re stuck. I came across…

  • Self-Editing: Where to Start.

    Self-Editing: Where to Start.

    So you have a finished manuscript. It’s over 100,000 words (if a novel). Probably over a hundred pages, and it feels great. Or maybe sad. I’m always sad when a story ends. I haven’t figured out if that’s because my endings just don’t work or if I just love the world I created too much.…

  • Grammar Friendly Foe?

    Grammar Friendly Foe?

    To be entirely honest, I’ve always had a love-hate relationship with grammar. I love it in that it really helps clarify what is being said or written. However, with the growth of online writing and messaging rather than writing letters new structures of language emerge. Which isn’t really a beast to get into here, at…