Tag: books

• Stepping into the scary bookish world

  March 27, 2023

  I like to give names to things, especially if they’re intimidating or difficult to work with. It makes it easier for me to approach the scary task or object, or reel in my “upsetments” and take a few deep breaths. This month, one of those scary things I… Read More

• The thing that changed my writing

  March 13, 2023

  We’ve all been there at some point as writers: staring in horror at the blinding vastness of a pearly white page, swearing we could hear the ticking taunts of the second hand with every flash of the cursor. The beginning of a story that hadn’t yet been written.… Read More

• The read that made me want to write

  February 27, 2023

  It was November of 2019, I believe, when my bookish college roommate gifted me a tattered copy of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca (1938) for my 20th birthday. It wasn’t until the pandemic hit and we were all confined to the walls of our homes that I finally picked… Read More