Michelle Wright

I participated in Camp Nanowrimo in both April and July this year. This was the first year I decided to join Camp, and I used it to push myself to finish two WIPs I had simmering. Well, it’s been three months since April’s Camp, and almost a week since I finished Camp in July and here I am with an update. As I said, I’m a slacker. Don’t believe me? Take a look at this graph! This is my July Camp Nanowrimo word count graph and is typical of what my Nanowrimo graphs look like.

My novel, The Tempo of Kindness, releases July 21, 2020! It’s a story about a young man discovering his place and his purpose, with the help of his grandma, a sassy florist, and a nosy crow. An unsuccessful musician, Beau stays with his grandma for the summer after the passing of his grandpa. Finding she has next to nothing, he’s determined to help her. When he’s at his lowest, he shows kindness to a crow and they form an unlikely bond. In comes Kate, who’s a successful flori

“The first rule of writing, Mr. Tupman, is never write what you know.” Jo said this on Little Women—the movie anyway. I haven’t read the book in ages. It’s always been my favourite line. Later in the story, Jo is encouraged to write from life, but I like her enthusiasm for the adventuresome stories she wrote. I’ve been giving this some thought recently because I hadn’t decided whether it’s more advisable to write from life or to never write what you know. If I only wrote what

A first look at the FULL COVER of my debut novel Finding Grace! So much work went into this cover, from concept, to book description, right to smallest detail of my logo on the spine. I have to say, coming up with design ideas for a book cover is so fun! Putting them on paper—not as much fun. Making every piece of this cover just right involved a lot of time and frustration. But it’s so worth it to see the final product, and I’m happy to share it! #comingsoon #fallstory #cove

Finding Grace releases March 20, 2020! Stay tuned for the full cover! #comingsoon #creativity #coverdesign #logo #epic #FindingGrace #storytelling #newadultnovel #novel #NewRelease #branding

Her family is hurting. Her career is on hold. He finds the perfect subject. Working together has them learning to set aside their differences and look beyond themselves. This is a story of loss, love, faith, and family. My debut Novel, Finding Grace, releases March 2020! Mark your calendar! #comingsoon #comingofage #faith #epic #love #FindingGrace #loss #romance #newadultnovel #novel #family #NewRelease

I’ve been thinking over my last year of writing and the very loose goals I had at the beginning of 2019. Last January, I had three complete novels. One of which had been edited and had begun the query process. The other two were in the beta-reading phase. My loose plans involved editing, querying, and writing something entirely new for Nanowrimo. I’m calling them loose because I never wrote them down or made detailed plans for them. They were in my head and all my writing tim

It’s been over a year since I first began querying my novel Finding Grace. I’ve weathered the querying process, and in the meantime, the novel has been edited, polished, and is waiting for its time to shine. I set aside work on this novel during Nanowrimo. But now that November is over, I’ve gone back to my plans for Finding Grace. You’ll have to wait for more on that, but in the meantime, enjoy this aesthetic! On a trip home to see her grandmother, Grace meets Alex, who is p

1. Don’t think about the odds of winning. Consider this simple math: 10,000 entries; 1 grand-prize winner. The odds are against you. Especially with that attitude. Now you know, so forget about it and enter the contest anyway. 2. Choose a story you really love. Even if it’s not finished. Work on it – write it, revise it, edit it, do whatever you have to do. You love this story, so believe that others will love it too. And if you don’t win the contest, entering it forced you t

This first anniversary of Writers Epic makes me think back a year to when it all began – what I had planned to write about and what advice I could give to aspiring writers. I think about that year and see how the events of my life have affected my writing. Not just in this blog, but in the fiction that I continually work on. I remember thinking that my life has nothing extraordinary enough about it to consider it “epic.” But considering the events in this past year alone – in

I recently discovered that in my older pieces of writing, and even in some of my newer stuff, I seem to have had a debate between long (and oftentimes boring) passages of description and intriguing (and far too short) dialogue. Apparently dialogue was always my true strong point. But it was buried, stuffed into the recesses of my stories between blocks of description about… well, mundane things: the weather, passers-by, a tree, the weather, and also, the weather. Rule of thum

In some ways, story writing is a bit like mountain climbing. It takes time and effort, and if you reach the peak, you get satisfied exhilaration with a great view. In school, we’re taught a basic story writing structure – beginning, middle, climax, dénouement, ending – making a map of a story look somewhat like a lopsided mountain. The mountain peak should be at the climax, indicating the climax as the most exciting, dramatic, reader-gripping part of the story. So what’s an a

According to the dictionary, “epic” can be an imaginative work of any form, impressive in scope, narrating the adventures or deeds of heroic or legendary figures. Sounds dramatic, and a little intimidating. So how does a writer – who is, perhaps, just a small town woman with seemingly no heroic or legendary adventures of her own to write about – achieve an “epic”? Through imagination and creativity, said writer, and others of differing situations but equally “un-legendary” st