Writing – Act the Giddy Goat

Stuck in Revisions (and How I Get Through It)

8 Mar 20197 Mar 2019

Hello my giddy friends! Today's post is all about revisions because---surprise, surprise---my currently-in-the-midst-of-revisions brain can't seem to focus on anything else. I'm definitely not an expert in this (quite the…

Tara’s NaNoWriMo Survival Tips

9 Nov 20189 Nov 2018

The first week of November is over, which means if you're participating in National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), you're probably just about to dip out of that honeymoon phase and…

Changing Your Mindset: How to Enjoy Writing

14 Sep 201814 Sep 2018

Greetings, friends! If you've read my posts before you may have intuited that in the past I have really struggled with writing. Or more accurately, the process of writing. I…

The Creative Behind the Scenes of Writing

4 Aug 20184 Aug 2018

This post is a bit late, and being written late... I had a number of things come up and my usual efforts to be on top of things fell to…

A Defense of Twilight

13 Jul 201813 Jul 2018

Yes, you read that right. I'm sure I'm not the first to have written something like this, particularly since it's well past prime time for Twilight...anything. The wave of wild…

Ambient Soundtrack Websites for Writers

10 Jul 201810 Jul 2018

There are plenty of different ambient sound and music websites out there. Ones that promise to relax you, to place you into a mind-space to help you concentrate, but music…

The Journal of Henry P. Marsh (excerpt from fictional work)

“When was the last time you saw Henry Marsh?” Henry Marsh… Henry Marsh… Henry Marsh Gil hurried down the streets, black buckled boots splashing in puddles that glistened with oil…

New Year’s Short Story

26 Jan 201826 Jan 2018

In a fit of boredom, Air gave me a New Year's prompt for a short story. Below is the result. You can read about the mansion mentioned here. Kate walked…

Favorite Ladies of Literature

12 Jan 201812 Jan 2018

Greetings, fellow Goats! I come to you today having just freshly finished Maggie Stiefvater's All the Crooked Saints, which was both an excellent story and an excellent example of how to…

Observed by Time (Short Story)

26 Dec 20173 Jan 2018

The man called Time stood in the corner of the room at the largest party in Buffalo, New York. The room was bustling with energy, people counting down the minutes…