Welcome Friends,

As all story-tellers before me, I am on my journey to create and bring to life new worlds and characters. As many before me know, this is not an easy voyage. It is one full of doubt and self-doubt. It is also full of hurdles that get in the way: impediments such as work, school, and family responsibilities to name a few. It is hard to come up with the next best-seller when there is already so much on one’s head. For that reason, I decided to share my journey and experiences as an aspiring writer and graduate students, both with their set of challenges. I do this with the hope that someone out there in the world comes across my writing and obtains the encouragement he or she needed to keep going. This passage is hard, and once I reach my destination and publish my first novel, I will look back on this and rejoice in the struggles I had to endure to reach my goal. If anything, I hope this snippet of my life as a writer help you reach your own goals, whatever those goals may be.

My Place of Peace

I created this site as a way for others like me to get to know more about me and learn of my writing process. It is hard to share such a process on Instagram or Twitter, so I wanted to create a place where all my ideas and processes can be explained and read in detail. I am excited to share my experiences as a writer as I continue my path to becoming a published author. To start off, I simply want to show where the “magic happens,” so to speak. This picture represents my place of peace and where my creations take place. Portrayed is one of my earlier editing of my current project The Exiled. Everyone has that special place where the magic flows and the worlds and characters come to life. This is mine, my sanctuary. My desk represents more to me than it just being a basic desk. It the place where I would go to when stressed, depressed, anxious to pour out my feelings into a notebook or journal. My desk became so much more to me. It became my therapist, in a way. It was the one place in the world where I could go and not be afraid to be myself, and it was that understanding that allowed me to become confident in my writing and be willing to share my experience with others.

Content to Come

In my journey to become a published author, I will share my writing process, my struggles, and the books I read. I hope that this corner of my digital writing desk allows others to become encouraged and serve a source for fellow writers to go to and find motivation and inspiration. Please enjoy, as I have shared a lot of my academic and creative writing content. I will continue to add to those sections as I know how hard both academic and creative writing can be. In this blog, I will focus on book reviews, bookish merchandise reviews as I obtain them, and my writing process and projects. Later to come, I will be making sure I have dates for when I will post such content as I intend to have a day of the week for book review, one for bookish merch, and one for my own writing updates. Stay tuned for when I will share each content and enjoy! Also, if you have any suggestion regarding books, bookish merchandise, and what you would like to hear about, don’t hesitate to let me know!

 

Best Regards,

H. J.