There's not much Henry has to live for. His boyfriend killed himself last year. He is mercilessly mocked at school. His grandma is deteriorating from Alzheimer. His dad has left his family. His brother is a giant screw up. His mom has her head in the sand. And aliens abduct him on a regular basis. During one abduction, the aliens show Henry that the world will end in 144 days, but he can prevent it if he pushed a big red button on their space ship. The oddest thing is, though, Henry can't think of one good reason the world shouldn't end. 

A lot of writers struggle with deciding what to do for money. Writing is passionate, fulfilling and exciting career path, but it's not the most fruitful. Even if you're published, it's no guarantee you'll make enough money to support yourself. So do you get a day job, which for the purposes of this post refers to a non-writing related career, to pay the bills or live lean and write full time. 

Welcome to "Why I'm Not Writing." We all know that the only thing writers like doing more than writing is avoiding writing. So every Friday I list five things that have distracted me from my writing that week. 

I also encourage you to share with me what made you procrastinate this week by posting with #whyimnotwriting on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram, or share in the comments below. I'll feature my favorites with everyone here. 

Jude and her sisters are taken from their home by the same faerie who murdered their parents. Now, ten years later, despite the horrible way she came to this place, Jude loves her home and craves her adopted "fathers" approval. So she trains and works to become a knight for the King of the Faeries. However, his youngest son, the cruel and spoiled prince, makes it his mission to make sure that never happens. 

As much as we'd like to pretend otherwise, rejection is as essential to writing as reading. Behind every writer you know and love, is a stack of rejection letters. It's tough work and could grind anyone down over time, but here are a few tips to help you get over this disappointment and back to your writing.

Welcome to "Why I'm Not Writing." We all know that the only thing writers like doing more than writing is avoiding writing. So every Friday I list five things that have distracted me from my writing that week. I also encourage you to share with me what made you procrastinate this week by posting with #whyimnotwriting on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram, or share in the comments below. I'll feature my favorites with everyone here. 

Blue's psychic family have told her over and over again that if she kisses her true love, he will die. However, that's never seemed like a problem as the only boys in town are the rich, privileged Aglionby Academy students. When she helps her aunt record the spirits who will be dying in the next 12 months, she sees a spirit for the first time. Since she's not a psychic, there's only two reasons why she'd see a spirit: if he was her true lover or if she killed him. But in her case, it could be both. 

In the month of April, tons of writers set goals for themselves and wrote every day through the Camp NaNoWriMo program. Personally, I wrote 30,000 words in April, getting about a third of the fifth draft of my novel rewritten. Others set higher goals for themselves and were able to finish their entire novel. It's an amazing feat, but one that often leads to some pretty terrible mistakes by first time novelists. If you recently finished your novel make sure you don't fall into this traps! 

Welcome to "Why I'm Not Writing." We all know that the only thing writers like doing more than writing is avoiding writing. So every Friday I list five things that have distracted me from my writing that week. 

I also encourage you to share with me what made you procrastinate this week by posting with #whyimnotwriting on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram, or share in the comments below. I'll feature my favorites with everyone here. 

After Queen Rielle betrayed her country, killed her husband and let murderous angels invade, she gives birth. Fearing for her daughter's life she entrusts her daughter of a young boy, Simon. A thousand years later, the world is still feeling the affects of her actions, although she's and the angels are considered more of a myth than fact. Eliana works as a bounty hunter, finding rebels against the empire that has risen and conquered the world since the death of Rielle, "The Blood Queen".

After a deadly virus eliminates much of the world's population, those who are left are divided into two factions. One is in the technologically advanced and military-centric City of Graven, where everything about the people from their clothes and hair are controlled and surpressed. The other is the rebel group living throughout the world in hiding, attempting to capture soliders from the City of Graven and undo the brainwashing they're sufferred through. Trapped on opposite sides of this war are sisters, Solanine and Ember. 

I had great plans for my evening last Sunday. I was going to make a pot of coffee, turn on my favorite Spotify station, work on a new blog post, open my google drive, work on my novel for a while and then download a new book to read on my kindle. Then, we had a storm hit, which took out a tree and a power line right next to our house. We were out of power from about 4pm to 11pm and I realized I was completely useless as a writer without an internet connection and power supply.