There are many types of writers in the world. They always ask if you're a ‘plotter' (outlining your book before you write it,) or if you're a pantser, (coming up with the book as you go along.) Ever since I was a kid, I've always been a plotter. I used to write outlines on my bedroom mirror with dry erase markers as I tried to come up with the elements that would eventually make up my books. Now, I'm 23 and living in a small apartment that doesn't allow for large bedroom mirr

It started in the beginning months of 2015. I was living with my sister, Erika, and brother-in-law, Ben, and their two kids in a three-bedroom house that once belonged to my grandparents. I lived in the back room. It was rather small, but it fit my single bed, desk, dresser, and record player. I was nineteen at the time and it had been almost two years since I had written a book—it felt like forever ago. The last book I had written, Ghosts That Haunt My Steps, was a historica

I’m sorry to hear that many people felt that 2018 was a bad year and that it couldn’t get much worse. When New Year’s comes, everyone tends to look back over the last year and ponder the lows and the highs. The lows seem to stick out more than the highs. Sometime during the summer of this past year, I took out a page in my journal and I wrote across the top, Things I Accomplished in 2018. It seems simple enough, but every time I accomplished something, no matter how big or sm