Well, guys, sometimes you gotta do things yourself. Because you can control the timeline. Because you can control the process and most of the result. Because, otherwise, nothing will happen—and fuck that. It applies to everything: don’t wait for permission or approval. Do your absolute best, pour your heart into that something, and greenlight your…
Category: Empowerment
Hi, 2021
This is good. 2020 ended, and most importantly, the pandemic’s end is in sight. According to my country’s vaccination programme, I can get my shot from April onwards. Half of me is relieved and thinking of a summer traveling, because you’d better be sure I’m gonna travel as much as I can as soon as…
NaNo is coming! The fear! The Fun!
I’m aware NaNoWriMo is as widely hated as it is beloved. Who likes it? Those who participate and find in it the motivation needed to draft at the speed of light. OK, at the speed of sound. Maybe just to write as much as possible. Now, who hates NaNo? Many people, for many reasons. In…
Thou shalt become a brand, right?
Since I’m finishing editing that book I’ve been editing FOREVER SO FAR, a number of questions and tasks have popped up in my head, including but not limited to: Girl, you need to rework your query letter And also, when will you finish editing your other two manuscripts? Because you have to finish writing book…
The grit
Hey, hey, hey, guys! I’m feeling obnoxiously hyper today, all positive for whatever reason. Maybe it’s because after months struggling to get much done, I got my groove back, and I’m PRODUCING big time. FINALLY, and against the odds (read: my own procrastination and laziness), I managed to finish editing my sci-fi book (for the…
Bye, bye insecurity
For a very, very long time, I’ve felt insecure about my writing. I’d enumerate the reasons, but right now, that feels like giving them power, and this post and this day are all about flipping the switch an empowering myself. I firmly believe I will reach my writing goals, I will get my books published,…
Seeing what truly matters
I’ve spent a couple of years relentlessly working on my books, and wrongly thinking that publication is the only thing that’d make me feel like I’ve achieved something in my life. As if all the other amazing things I’ve done and accomplished had ceased to matter. How ridiculous of me. Then, the world came under…
How to survive: A kit
I might start blogging A LOT, guys. Suddenly, I feel like documenting my querying experience here instead of on Twitter—so that I can revisit these posts and see how unhinged, or not, I was at any particular point. I’m just getting started, so prepare to unfollow because I know that, regardless of the outcome, I’ll…
The first queries were weird
I have never almost puked over the thought of hitting “Send” on Gmail. Until yesterday. And I hate Excel with the fury of thirty volcanoes, but that’s a different dread. In my nervousness, I put it off for a while, until I realized I needed to do it. I had to send out the first…
The 2020 agenda
I love lists. Lists are the only way I can get anything done. The sheer pleasure of crossing off something I’ve successfully completed/done is similar to the pleasure the chocolate and cake I devoured during NYE gave me. Guys, I ate way too much. Anyway, I started off the year by: Sleeping in Eating more…
2020
As probably 90% of Earth’s population, I was slightly panicking about the impending beginning of a new decade, thinking I’ve done nothing with my life so far, regretting imaginary and real decisions I respectively imagined and actually made; wondering, “what the fuck next?” The truth is, the past ten years were fruitful, interesting, invigorating, and…
Gathering the courage to query
Man, I remember a year ago when I tried sending out a handful of queries for the first time ever. A year ago. That’s the time I’ve spent editing this book once again (HUGE * HERE. SEE BELOW POST). It’s been worthwhile, though, because I’ve grown as a writer and all that blahblahblah but, mostly,…