What makes a writer “normal”?
Hello Ebi! Hello Fam! Imagine how painfully dull it would be if everyone's stories read the same. If every story started with "Once upon a time" and ended with, "and they lived happily ever after." There was a time when going outside the norm as a writer was frowned...
Finally! My First Submission Request!
Hello Ebi! Hello Fam! If the past two weeks are any indication, 2021 may be another difficult year. But at least my very first day started with a bang—I received my first submission request from a literary agent! AHH! I don’t know what made me do it. I had no...
Writers: What’s the difference between a goal and a resolution?
Hello Ebi! Hello Fam! Happy New Year, writerly creatives! I quietly tiptoed out of the Year That Should Not Be Named, with the least amount of fanfare possible. I'm grateful for my health and strength (as well as those of my family and friends), and I'm looking...
Writers: Should you Query in December?
Hello Ebi! Hello Fam! As you may already know, I began querying Amachi’s Hope again this year. I did not approach it in a gun-ho manner (hitting up a bunch of agencies at one time), but only two that I discovered during pitch competitions on Twitter this Fall. Though...
The Writer’s Abracadabra
Hello Ebi! Hello Fam! Abracadabra, or “Avra Kehdabra,” is a well-known term. One cannot hear it without relating it to some form of magical connotation or being transported to childhood memories of Mary Poppins, Aladdin and The King of Thieves, non-fiction books on...