Lately I’ve been thinking about how quickly everything moves online. One post replaces another. One trend replaces the next. Everything seems to disappear almost as quickly as it arrives. Sometimes it feels like we’re all being encouraged to move a little faster. Create more. Post more. Keep up. As someone who spends most of her…
Sometimes the most productive days don’t end with a higher word count. When most people imagine an author at work, they picture someone sitting at a desk, typing away until another chapter is finished. Sometimes that’s exactly what it looks like. But more often than not, writing begins long before the first sentence ever appears…
A coffee shop, a notebook, and a few new story worlds. I have a list. Not a serious list. Not a productivity list. A coffee shop list. Whenever I hear about a cozy café, a local coffee shop, or a place that looks like it belongs inside a story, I add it to the…
For a while, the Atrium sat quiet. The lights were still on. The books were still on the shelves. The stories were still waiting where I’d left them. But after a season of burnout, I found myself spending less time in the spaces that once felt like home. I wasn’t writing as much. I wasn’t…