Self Publishing vs. Traditional Publishing

Self-publishing and traditional publishing each offer distinct advantages and challenges, and the right choice depends largely on an author’s goals, resources, and preferences. Self-publishing provides authors with complete creative control over their work, including decisions about content, cover design, pricing, and release timing. It also offers significantly higher royalty rates—sometimes up to 70%—and a much…

Misunderstood.

Sometimes the people you want to be part of your story are only meant to be a chapter. I love when book characters are human. As a lover of fantasy novels and series, I don’t particularly mean human, human. Though, I love regular human books too. I mean when the characters are real. When they’re…

Unequally Yoked.

When dating, you want your partner to be your equal, not the same as you per say but have the same goals and future desires as you. To be equally yoked goes far deeper than just interests and hobbies and housework duties. It’s more about how you two are on a spiritual, moral, life goal level.

Create More. Worry Less.

Creativity is a unique ability. It wasn’t until recently that I realized this. It’s so easy for me to recognize other people’s ability but really hard for me to acknowledge my own. Have you ever heard of imposter syndrome? If you’ve been on social media lately I’m sure you have come across someone who claims…

Q&A: Writing Edition

Here’s a few little questions and answers I did based on my Instagram story I posted. I thought this would be a fun thing to do! What inspired you to start writing? When I was younger, I started a dream journal. I would, and still do, have very vivid dreams and I would always wake…

Mental Health Awareness Month

What is Mental Health?

Mental health is involved in our social, emotional and psychological well-being. It determines a lot of factors in our life including: how we handle stress, how we interact/relate to others, make everyday choices, feel, act and even think.

Paranoid.

Paranoid. I took a psychology class last semester and one of the extra credit options was to take a psychoanalysis personality test. Crazy I know, but the results were intriguing. Stages of life: I’m always willing to take tests to find out who I am, and I know I’m not alone in that. I feel…

Things to Help You Reach Your Fitness Goals

The truth about fitness and being healthy is that there is no right or wrong way to do it. The fact of the matter is we could all have the same workout plan and eat the same foods and still have different bodies. It’s just the way life is, so you have to customize your plan to what works best for you and what makes you feel the best. I hope this post was helpful in some way!

6 Things I learned in 2022

A lot can happen in a year. I feel like so many people do posts like this. I’ve gained inspiration from a blogger friend of mine, jennyinneverland. She has a wonderful list as well. When I was thinking about this past year as a whole. It certainly not what I was expecting but when is…

Year 2022

As 2022 came to a close, I reflected on the past year and the “bucket list” I made.

The goals for 2022 went from everything simple and doable to some big things that I’ve always wanted to do. Did I accomplish all of them? Not really. Is that okay? Absolutely. Because there will always be another year.

What’s on your goal list for 2023? Let me know in the comments!