The Social Porcupine

On August 4th I will have been blogging for four years. This is my first post . In many ways I feel as if I have been blogging forever. Only four years??? And the more I think of it the more I'm amazed, because I've lived so much life in these last four years. It was soon after starting my blog that I first traveled away from home, alone  and during the years since I have traveled more times than I can remember, making tons of friends and learning so much about life and people In some ways I feel like the person that started this blog four years ago is a distant memory. At least outwardly. But I'm also the same. It wasn't long after starting this blog that I wrote my first opinionated piece . Since starting this blog I've wrote all my best works , finishing tons of short stories and some novels. In many ways this blog is exactly the same as when I first started it. It's still pink and green. Still random, mostly designed to share my thoughts and conne...

End of July I went to my first writer's conference, Realm Makers , in Nevada. It was a great experience! I loved being surrounded by so many writers ;0  The best part was meeting people and having conversations . Some of which were about story , some of which were not ;)  I'd like to share some highlights from the weekend :) Faces I met, some of which I had previously seen only by picture:  Met these two on the first day - Tracey and Lisa . Found out later on that they are good friends of one of my best friend's older sisters :D  A bunch of awesome go teen writer teens!! Spent a lot of time with the two behind me, Audrey and Jonathan .  Ted Dekker was the keynote speaker.  Two more fun girls - Jessi and Charissa .  One of the first people I met, Carla Hoch. I had a lovely appointment with her in which she gave me some amazing advice for my stories. She is big into fighting accuracy in stories and has ...