Hello and welcome to my coffee-loving, book-obsessed, pajama-crazed corner of the Interwebs!

I could easily bore you with my educational background, my storytelling credentials, my writing history, facts about my family, how I like my steak cooked (medium rare, in case you’re curious), and what my favorite movie is (a tie between The Princess Bride and Gladiator), but according to those blogging know-it-alls, you’ll only bear with me for 600 words, so I’d better cut to the chase!  Let me tell you why I’m here occupying this remote, bibliophilic, and quite cozy sector of cyberspace…

Writing has been my foremost passion since I was four years old and didn’t even know how to write a simple sentence. I would sit for hours at my tiny, wooden table and scribble illegible text willy-nilly around the edges of construction paper. Only after I had finished my “story” would I fill in the center with a horrific drawing of the main characters – my attempt at an abstract book cover, I suppose. (I’m sad to say that my artistic talent plateaued at age five after I was named “Artist of the Week” for a one-eyed, yellow and green-spotted dinosaur I drew in Pre-K.) To this day, my mom’s office contains bins-full of notebooks and stapled-together short stories, all part of the literary sandbox in which I played.

This blog began as a space for fellow writers to find inspiration, encouragement, and practical resources and tools for their literary journeys. Today, it’s where I go to share my struggles and lessons learned. If you are a writer, I hope you too have a journal, blog, or some other medium into which you dive deep into your thoughts and emotions, because our one-of-a-kind experiences truly do produce the stuff of excellent fiction.

I want this blog to be a place for you to come when you’re facing trials and tribulations, or when you’re traveling through a battlefield in which you are your own worst enemy. It’s my hope that through my own real-life stories and lessons, you will be encouraged to keep praying, keep praising, and keep soldiering on.

For His Renown,

Diana