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Lessons Learned From Different Genres

5/10/2024

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Hey, hey folks. Back again with another (hopefully) enlightening blog post. I wanted this blog to give insights into my mindset whether it’s with my process, inspiration, or other things related to my writing. So that brings me to today’s topic.

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Behind The Scenes: An Introduction to Love & Sportsball

4/26/2024

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Hey, how’s it going? Hope spring time is treating you well. I’m happy you stopped by the blog today. In the last post, I gave a sort of introduction to the characters in my upcoming book Love and Sportsball, due out Sept. 24 from Afterglow Books. A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of interviewing Rae Shawn for her podcast Rae’s Corner, and one of the questions that came up was where does the inspiration for her stories come from.

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How I Build A Character Profile: Using Tarot in my writing pt.2

4/3/2024

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Hello again. Thanks for stopping by my blog. Last post I broke down my process of using tarot cards to help build my characters’ personalities and motivations individually. That post got long, so I decided to break it up into two parts.

In this one I’ll be discussing how I use the Love Story oracle deck to build the relationship aspect for the characters and how that informs the conflict for the story. As a refresher, here is the character profile spread I use. 

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How I Build A Character Profile: Using Tarot in my writing pt.1

3/20/2024

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​Hey y’all. Welcome back to my blog. Last month I did a post about how I “plan” as a pantser and I briefly touched on using tarot as a tool that helps me build my characters. Coming off the latest #20kIn5Days challenge in which I had to do the work for a new WIP, I figured it’d be a good time to go more in depth with that process.

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Let's Talk About Sex: My thoughts on writing intimate scenes

3/6/2024

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Happy March! I’m back for another installment of the random things that go on in Meka’s head, aka my blog. Though I do hope that the posts I’ve done so far have been entertaining and maybe a little enlightening. The blog title already tells you what will be going on today. ​

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How It All Comes Together: Planning for this pantser

2/21/2024

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Hey y’all. So, for this post I originally started writing something else, but then I hit a wall with it and one of my friends suggested I change topics to see if that would help, so here we are. I think in the Rhythm of My Words post I talked about how I’m a pantser, meaning I don’t outline my stories. I get a general idea, and I see where it takes me.

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Being A Good Beta Reader: Tips to help give constructive feedback

2/7/2024

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Hey y’all and welcome back and happy February. I hope you’ve had a good start to your year.  Kinda wild we’re already done with one month. I spent most of January working on my own edits, and also beta reading for another author. Because of that, I thought to share a few things I’ve learned over the years.

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The Rhythm of My Words: How music helps my productivity

1/24/2024

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Happy Wednesday everyone. I’m back again. Today I wanted to talk about one of the things that helps me with both inspiration and productivity.
 

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As writers we all have our processes. Some plot, some wing it, some do a combination of the two. If you didn’t know, I’m a total wing it gal. I’ve never liked outlines, even way back in my school days. That hasn’t changed over the years. Because I don’t plot, and my characters can sometimes be uncooperative, I need to seek motivation/inspiration from outside sources when I’m stuck.

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Playing With Life: Writing Lessons from Playing The Sims

1/10/2024

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Hello, and welcome to my blog. I do hope you find the content I’m going to be sharing here insightful and entertaining. I want this to be a place where y’all can get to know me and my process a little better. I have grand ideas of sharing behind the scenes in what it takes for me to put together a story, how I get ideas, and just random tidbits that come to mind. To kick things off, I thought I’d start with how I ended up doing the author thing. 

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