
Simply Stated: A Blog on Writing
Writing Tips, Resources, and Musings
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Storytime at Diesel
Recap of Storytime at Diesel

Upcoming Book Event
Book reading and signing August 6 at 3pm - Diesel in Del Mar, CA.

Children’s Book Kickstarter Results
The results are in for the Kickstarter campaign for Grace and Nora’s Dance Among the Stars. Check out the final numbers here.

Let dance transport you
Announcing my children’s book Grace and Nora’s Dance Among the Stars coming soon!

Let’s talk about commas.
A comma is a saw slicing a branch from a tree trunk.

A Poem
Poetry scares me. There’s something about the lines and space of a poem that allow for words to grow and change.

I just want comfy jeans.
Reading, hiking, watching movie trailers, and deconstructing marketing campaigns: these are just a few of my favorite hobbies.

The Junk Drawer
Most writers’ processes are different (so I’ve been told). My process involves the junk drawer.

The Bind of Absolutes
I’ll never like to dance.
Absolute language seems like a good idea in the moment.

Colons are magical.
I’m not sure when this happened, but I’ve become the type of person who has a favorite piece of punctuation: the colon.

An Introduction
“What do you do?”