☕ The coffee’s ready. The Notion board is glowing. And somewhere between the last playlist shuffle and the click of my keyboard, the countdown hit zero. Tomorrow… well, technically, tonight at 12:01 AM, the Rough Draft Challenge begins.Fifty thousand words. Thirty days. One author armed with too much caffeine and not enough sanity. It’s go…
☕ The plotting board is a mess, my Notion tabs have multiplied overnight, and my playlist has more versions than I’d like to admit. In other words, it’s officially the middle of Preptober. This is the part of the month where I start living in two creative worlds at once. My 2025 Christmas story (the one…
☕✨ The notebooks are filling fast, and the playlist is dangerously long, so you know that means the characters have arrived. This Preptober, I’m not prepping this year’s Christmas story (that one’s already written and heading into edits before its December release). Nope, this round of plotting chaos belongs to next year’s Christmas story. Because…
☕ There’s something about October that makes me start dreaming in fairy lights and snow. Which is funny, considering I live in sunny Florida, where the only flakes we see come from a beachside latte. But growing up in Kentucky, I remember those cold nights, the kind where the air bites your nose and the…