Author: Shari Paul

So, I’ve been writing this one particular YA novel for a decade now. It was supposed to be the start of a pentalogy but getting the first book right has been a struggle at best. Well, anyway, I’ve now gotten to the halfway point of that first book. Yay! To celebrate, I went to review… Continue reading Halfway there

I want to start this by saying that I know I am very late but the last few months have not been too great writing-wise, so, yeah. Happy 2020! I'm starting the year with the reprint of my first published story, the novelette Epic of Sakina (part one in the link, part two also available,) at… Continue reading 2020!

It's almost here and I hope I can do it this year. And NaNoWriMo. Camp Nano actually worked excellently. I tried to do urban sketching for one day last month. Perspective. Got to work on that.

So, I haven't posted in a while and that is mainly because I have been writing. But, a quick update. 1) I got to read an excerpt of my writing at the Carifesta! I was so nervous but I am so happy I did it. I couldn't stick around to chat or anything because I… Continue reading News Update!

Me at the wedding. It was a fun day and I hope my friend has a great life ahead of her. As for me, I have spent most of the last few weeks writing a sentence a day or nothing at all and just watching tv instead. On the one hand, Godzilla was awesome and… Continue reading On burnout (no, the other kind)

It's Mermay. Lord knows I need the stress relief of art. As usual I found a list of prompts on Pinterest and I hope I can do as many of them as possible. Writing these past few days has actually been going okay? I have 1.5 story drafts. I have an idea in development for… Continue reading Mermaids

I seem to be having trouble finding words so here is some art. I dream of my own urban fantasy/paranormal romance series. I think this looks too much like Max Gladstone's Craft Sequence though. My list of ideas to write is not as long as the TBR but yeah...