Hello!

Let's get this experiment started!

I'm just going to say right off the bat that this is going to be a work in progress blog- a place to put my thoughts as I have them, the steps toward getting published as I take them, and the pieces I'm proud of and want to share. I'm going to try to post once a week, because that (hopefully) means I'm making some form of measurable progress once a week. I can live with that pace.

A little about me- I'm twenty-five, I live in the Pacific Northwest, and I've been writing seriously for over ten years and for fun even longer than that. I mostly write science fiction and fantasy (the real world is boring, why write real stuff when you can put aliens and dragons in it?), but I dabble in a little of everything. My kryptonite is always starting new projects because I get inspiration at the drop of a hat, so one of my main goals this year is to practice focusing on one piece. I also have pretty much only written fiction in the past, so this year I'm practicing branching out to nonfiction and personal. My favorite place to write is with my cat Fuzzy, who has nearly deleted several documents and woke me at four this morning to sit on the pillow next to my face. I love him.

Currently, I'm working on The House on the Rocks- which you'll definitely learn all about soon, so stay tuned- to submit it to the PNWA contest for unpublished works, and also getting this website put together. (If you're here in the early stages, I commend you. It's still mostly lorem ipsum at this point.) I've had a blog before but nothing that I really liked, so wish me luck figuring this out.

I'll see you next week to let you know the status of submitting to the PNWA contest and what I'm working on next!

-Alexa