Insights and Updates

I want to start by saying that these books aren’t listed in order of preference. It was hard enough to decide upon just 10 books (or book series) to include here. It would have been impossible to truly rank them. These are books that stayed…

Writer’s Block can be frustrating. Progress grinds to a halt, and it suddenly feels impossible to get the words on the page. When I was younger, I would often find myself stuck for days (or sometimes even months) before I could continue on. That all…

To write realistic characters, it can be beneficial to understand how real people think and behave. As such, I’d like to provide some valuable information from the science of psychology, starting with something fairly simple: cognitive distortions. Cognitive distortions are automatic, irrational, and negatively biased…

Coalescent began with just a trope: enemies to lovers. It’s a trope I’m rather fond of, and I wanted to tell my own story with it. I love the idea of character relationships changing so drastically over time, and one benefit of enemies to lovers…