Although it may be June, OcTerror is well underway behind the scenes and, after five years, I thought sharing some of my creation process could be fun. Although all of my reviews and posts are scheduled for October, I often begin brainstorming and writing them months in advance. Half the time I’m already thinking… Continue reading How I Create My OcTerror Review List
This year, instead of decorating all over the Bramford, I focused my efforts on a few easy areas because I knew time was of the essence between everything I had to do. In the past, I’ve posted pictures of my spooky home décor, but for 2021 I thought I’d provide a little guide for… Continue reading How to Decorate Your TV Stand for Halloween
Generally, in my almost fifteen years of experience, I’ve come to discover there are three types of writers. Drafters spend the most time in the development, brainstorming, and first draft stage of a project. Editors focus on the small details in a text, constantly tweaking this word or that. Revisionists, on the other hand,… Continue reading 10 Tips for Ruthless Revision
In my past experiences writing blogs, I’ve only ever done one theme month. It was February 2013 and for twenty-eight days I wrote about love: dating advice, Disney analysis, anecdotes, what to wear, etc. By the last day I was sick of love, tired of writing about it, and definitely not looking for it. So… Continue reading How to Brainstorm a Theme Month
Being sick on vacation sucks. It sucks when you want to hike a volcano and see the city, but your lungs are on fire. It sucks when you want to go to hot pools but your nose is running like a faucet. It sucks when you want to go outside and do things, but your… Continue reading How to Have an Adventure on a Sick Day
When you’re a self-conscious, anxious twenty-something on vacation, it can be hard to have a good time when you’re constantly worrying over people taking photos, what you’re eating, where you’re going, and whether or not you look like an idiot to the locals. I’m sure that most people don’t think of all of those things,… Continue reading How To (Truly) Enjoy a Vacation
When you’ve been working on a project for a long period of time things tend to change. That’s just the nature of writing, editing, and revising, but a lot of the time the organic and natural changes that occur seem out of your control, beyond your reasoning, and tend to frustrate more than relax. That’s… Continue reading How to Deal with Evolving Characters
I’ll be honest and say that I was one of those kids who barely had to try in school. Technically, I was “gifted” and able to absorb the material faster, better, stronger, etc. So I spent a lot of my early academic career day dreaming, reading, and writing, but not really learning. I understood the… Continue reading How to Beat the Best Semester Ever
Some of you may remember the burning pile of feces that was last semester. I’m not stretching the truth to call it the worst term of my university career. I mean, I barely held onto the GPA required to keep my scholarship and that’s a 2.0… So low. And I vowed to do better,… Continue reading How to Have the Best Semester Ever
One of the things I’ve found to be of great importance in any relationship—more than compromise, more than communication—is privacy and me-time. It allows a person to space themselves physically, emotionally, and mentally from any problems or issues they’re having in the relationship and recharge, recalibrate, and rethink the situation. I’m pretty sure it’s one… Continue reading The Importance of Being Separate
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