Shayna Grissom Writes

writing

  • Technical Difficulties

    I wore the keyboard out again. The plastic case of the laptop was never quite right after replacing just the keyboard, it started cracking and the bottom was falling out every time I picked it up. Yet another laptop bites the dust. It’s always the keyboard for me. This time it was only the color… Read more

  • To indie or not to indie

    Some of you might know me in writing servers, I’m apart of several. I’m an embarrassingly high level in a few and something that comes up often is whether or not to try querying or “just go indie”. Rather than blow up the chat and increase my participation level and get tagged by that awful… Read more

  • I am the narwal; Goo goo g’joob (HIGMA)

    The stat nerds are gonna hate this… At some point, The Beatles got really weird. They went from “Can’t Buy Me Love” to “I am the Walrus”. There’s plenty of reasons for that. Fame, wealth, LSD… But there’s another reason, one that will meander into a point halfway though this post. I started writing fifteen… Read more

  • Safe & Sound

    It was 2016 and we were house shopping. At this point in time we had looked at over six houses and were outbid on five of them and walked away from the 6th after a bad inspection report. We looked at new houses, old houses, and everything in-between and were getting desperate. My house had… Read more

  • Inspiration

    It’s not where inspiration comes from, but rather when. I have four main folders on my desktop. “Working Drafts” and “Published” are fairly self-explanatory, the other two are easily understood if you’ve seen The Princess Bride. “The Dragon’s Hoard” is where my finished works go. Before my Self-Publishing era that file was beyond depressing to… Read more

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