Seduced by Second-Person Point of View

The first time I dipped my toes in this intimate and imperative style was while reading "Choose Your Own Adventure" books. Oh, and prior to that time was when my mom read "The Monster at the End of This Book" told by lovable Grover. In my high school honors class, I remember reading another second-person …

JuNoWriMo 2020 Days 19 and 20

On Friday, I wrote only a couple hundred words for my WIP in between submitting work to markets. On Saturday, I wrote a couple hundred more and editing the first five pages. Though I haven't been meeting my daily minimum word count goal, I'm glad that I'm still writing every day. Every word counts. 🙂 …

Uncorked 2020 Movie is . . . fantastic actually. 🍷

I finished watching Uncorked about a month ago. Like the main character, Elijah, I wasn't yet cemented on what I thought of it. I was incredibly wishy-washy. Me: I think I liked it, but the ending . . . Also Me: I loved it, and yet why didn't it just . . . GIVE ME …

“The Many Faces of Ito” is . . . delightful.

The Japanese TV Drama, "The Many Faces of Ito" has it all and then some. I binge-watched it when it debuted on Netflix and may mostly re-watch it. Why? Unrequited love. Misunderstandings. Best Friends Forever Betrayal. Oh. My. Goodies! The series is mostly about Rio Yazaki, a jaded rom-com screenwriter who is struggling to make …

How Million Yen Women Inspired My Revised Author Wish List!

On Twitter, I discovered this hashtag: #MSWL. For those of you who don't know, it stands for Manuscript Wish List. There's even a website dedicated to this where agents and editors can share with writers what kind of manuscripts they specifically want in their inboxes! Groovy, baby. Just groovy. As a writer, I've always had …