Since today is my birthday AND my son's, I figured to shine the light on authors! A great gift for authors would be to give them reviews, share about their book, and be supportive! SO, I'm sharing this with you all! ❤️

Let’s slow this down for a second. Focus on reflecting instead of what you've done. Think of the feelings, the parts that pulled you within your story. Not what you wrote. Not how much you got done. But what you noticed, the pull. Because Story First isn’t about output first,It’s about awareness first. 👉 Where did your writing feel clear? 👉 Where did it feel foggy? 😶‍🌫️ Drop one word below. And if you want help making sense of it, comment HELP and I’ll walk through it with you. ❤️

There is a moment where your book stops being a someday dream. It becomes a decision. You're not suddenly fearless. The path isn't perfectly clear. The story keeps calling, and you finally decide to answer it differently. That's the change! What decision does your book need from you this week? Drop it in the comments! 👇

There’s an old practice among some Japanese monks where they would write a poem and then release it into a river, letting the current carry it away. Not because the poem had no value, but because attachment can become a cage. The act of writing was the living thing. The page was only ever a leaf floating downstream. Over the years, I’ve lost stories to crashed computers, floods, divorce, hard drives, moves, and the strange erosion of time. Entire worlds vanished. Characters gone. Thousands upon thousands of words disappeared into the fog. But I’m still a writer. A tree does not stop being a tree because a storm tears off a branch. The story is not always the point. Sometimes the writing itself is the point. The practice. The attention. The shaping of thought into language. The quiet act of returning to the desk again and again, even after loss. If you lost a project recently, grieve it. Seriously. But don’t mistake a lost manuscript for a lost voice. Those are not the same thing.

I’m going to be updating my logo and my icon. Let me know your thoughts on what I have created. Or, if you have any ideas, I’d love to hear them! I’ve noticed that my logo doesn’t scream that I help writers with personal, fictional and fantasy books. 📚 So, I want to give it a better look to invite the right people in. And you all are the best ones to ask for your suggestions! Share in the comments your thoughts! 💭 This is what I’ve come up with.