Amara Lynn, your friendly superqueero antihero

With NaNo officially announcing it’s closure, I thought I’d take a moment to reminisce here. I’ve known about NaNo since 2009. While I didn’t have what it took back then, I interacted with some people and made friends thanks to it. Fast forward to 2017, when I started publishing my work. I’d finished a couple things, so I felt more capable of writing books, though I still wasn’t up to novel…

May 1 question: How do you deal with distractions when you are writing? Do they derail you? Oh, distractions. My biggest enemy. As an individual with ADHD, but unable to get a diagnosis due to our messed up healthcare system here in the US, distractions are the bane of my existence. I’m very easily distracted, and forgetful. So, yeah, a distraction can easily derail me from my writing. Add in…

Have you “played” with AI to write those nasty synopses, or do you refuse to go that route? How do you feel about AI’s impact on creative writing? Have you “played” with AI to write those nasty synopses, or do you refuse to go that route? How do you feel about AI’s impact on creative writing? Must we talk about “AI” again? I suppose we must, because people aren’t getting the point, and keep…

February 7 question: What turns you off when visiting an author’s website/blog? Lack of information? A drone of negativity? Little mention of author’s books? Constant mention of books? Today, we’re talking about websites! Let’s dive in. What turns me off first and foremost about a website isn’t anything to do with the content, but the design/layout itself. I’m an artist at heart, and seeing no…

January 3 question: Do you follow back your readers on BookBub or do you only follow back other authors? BookBub is one of the many underutilized resources for me, most of which are because of finances, but we won’t get into that. At some point I would like to put together a list of marketing resources that are completely free, because as someone who struggles with marketing and has no money to…

December 6 question: Book reviews are for the readers. When you leave a book reviews do you review for the Reader or the Author? Is it about what you liked and enjoyed about your reading experience, or do you critique the author? There is no denying that reviews are for readers. That being said, some authors read reviews, some only read good reviews, others don’t read them at all. I’m going to…

This month’s blog hop asks: Do you particpate in NaNoWriMo? I do! The short answer is, yes, and this is my seventh year and (hopefully) seventh consecutive win! Long answer, I’ve actually known about (and made several very half-hearted attempts) at NaNo since 2010, but it never really clicked for me until I learned how to plan out and finish a story without NaNo for motivation. My first real…

This month’s blog hop asks: The topic of AI writing has been heavily debated across the world. According to various sources, generative AI will assist writers, not replace them. What are your thoughts? I’m going to go off on a tangent here on this for a moment, because the term “AI” or “artificial intelligence” as this tech has come to be known is a lie. So, I’d like to start with that, and the…

This month’s blog hop asks: Have you ever wrote something you felt conflicted about? If so, did you let it stay how it was, take it out, or rewrite it? In the past, I’ve had a WIP which I tried once to start, and it felt all wrong. I was wrought with anxiety over it, and for that one, ultimately, I started all over again and scrapped the page or so I had written before. It was more than a year…