Changes and Transitions

Interwebs, 

I hope you all had a great holiday and are ready for 2016 to be over (because I know I for sure am)! Anyway, I wanted to put this out there to everyone and just vent about transitions and changes.

I've had a teacher, mentor, and editor for the past three years. When I first met her, I provided two short stories to her and she said to me that I am definitely a storyteller but she will help me be a writer. She was being facetious, she was actually giving me a compliment. She was saying that I can spin a good story but my grammar wasn't up to snuff, and she would help me get there. I've made two short stories with her, and completed my first, second and third draft of my first novel with her and as of today, we are no longer working with each other. We aren't parting on bad terms, but her writing career is seeing another peak (this time on the small screen) and my professional (please read occupation from 9-5 that helps pay bills) life has become hectic in the past few months.

So, now, I am working on my next project solo-dolo and initially I'm feeling a little lost. Who is going to edit me and call me on my mess-ups? Right now, I am just trying to read more and just write like normal. The editing isn't the issue. I think the real issue is that she was my first reader for so long and now... nothing! Anyway, onward and upward! Thank you for letting me vent. 

Chapters, CodeCademy, and Caffeine

How are you Interwebs?!

 I hope you all had a great holiday! I know that I did. What have I been up to recently, because it surely wasn't updating my blog.

Well, I have been busy at work bringing a new project to fruition for my peers, to give them a chance to get their business ideas heard by the leadership team. I dubbed it PitchFest, a name that I've taken from Twitter directly when the agents are asking for pitches. Think of my work project as SharkTank within a corporate environment.

That venture, which all-in-all took about 6 months, led me to my next professional challenge which is teaching myself how to code. To do so I am using CodeCademy, which is a really good way of learning.

That was all my boring stuff. Now, let's focus on the fun stuff: I've already written my goals out for the 2017 year and it involves a lot of writing!!!! I'm working to refocus my energies on writing and getting my craft down. This blog will be a part of that goal. I am determined to write 1,000-2,000 words a day. Hopefully all of those words will be toward The Community, because I desperately want to finish that, but if not then it will be here.