by Colby R Rice | Feb 29, 2016 | Writing Hustle, Writing Inspiration & Writing Achievements
YES!! So while the last week lagged a little as well, and I continued to have to take care of administrative “life stuff”, I fought the drag like a demon, lol. AND WITH SUCCESS! I’ve finally broken free of the muck and mire to get some writing done,...
by Colby R Rice | Feb 22, 2016 | Writing Hustle, Writing Inspiration & Writing Achievements
So I’m starting to realize that a structure is emerging from these posts, so I’m just going to follow suit. Here’s what’s going on! LAST WEEK’S HAUL Last week’s successes: Yup. So we make plans and God laughs, apparently. The rest...
by Colby R Rice | Feb 20, 2016 | Book Reviews, Dystopian, Novels, Post-apocalyptic, Reviews, Sci-fi Thriller / Science Fiction Thriller, Young Adult / YA
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins My rating: 5 of 5 stars A lot of people criticize this middle book of the Hunger Games series because they believe it “lagged”, “nothing was happening”, or “Katniss was too whiny”. And it’s...
by Colby R Rice | Feb 15, 2016 | Writing Hustle, Writing Inspiration & Writing Achievements
So we’re hitting the halfway point of the Q1 2016, and I’m honestly feeling a little frustrated. As a full-time mom to an extremely clingy and dependent (but oh so adorable) toddler, I really do try my best to be both a great mom and work on my books and...
by Colby R Rice | Feb 8, 2016 | Writing Hustle, Writing Inspiration & Writing Achievements
So I got a LOT of really important admin stuff done last week, and my word count suffered for it. BUT I also did a LOT of amazing worldbuilding and scene list-writing, so yes, there WAS some awesome story happening. Here’s how THIS week’s flowing: What...