I try to keep my “About” page up-to-date, as well as cover all the important information. It’s that time again!
I’m doing my best to establish a stronger brand as a writer, because the more I read about the industry, the more I realize that I need to be clearer and more accessible. To that end, I’m including links to the other places you can find me on the Internet!
Also, I am in the process of setting up an e-mail list so you can get exclusive content, as well as notifications when I post original content (not reblogs), with the occasional exception if I want to share a particularly powerful quote. I have a pretty good idea of what I’m going to do with it, but I’m researching the best methods for distribution.
Making lots of headway these days! Thanks for joining me as I progress in my career as a writer.
Now stop reading this, and start writing.
What is this blog?
Hi! I’m a writer! And if you’re here, I bet you are, too. This is a place for you, a place where you can take accountability for yourself, a place to learn and grow, a place to think and work.
I have written over 100 short stories and a novel, and I’m currently working on other novels and a novella. I have participated on and off in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) every year since 2008.
I believe wholeheartedly that writing is not just something you do–it’s a habit; it’s a way of life. If you are a writer, then you should always have something you can write in with you; you should always be paying attention to people to see if they can be characters; you should always be coming up with thoughts and ideas; you should always be writing.
My hope is that this blog will help you blossom as a writer. And I hope even more so that you will understand how important it is to quit making excuses for yourself and just do what you love. The real question is this: you’re still reading this–why aren’t you writing?
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ABOUT ME:
A wordsmith with her head in the clouds, Stephanie Tillman keeps her fingers in a little bit of everything. This go-getter started writing at a young age, and her first publication was a short story (“Unscrewed”) in the anthology “Blood and Guts.” She maintains a strong social-media presence among readers and writers, with over 17,000 followers on her writing-focused Tumblr (“Why Aren’t You Writing?”).
Mentored by poet Dr. Tom C. Hunley for her M.A. in Creative Writing, Stephanie writes in as many genres as possible and is always hungry for new knowledge of any kind. The worlds of fantasy that inspire her came from the pens of Edgar Allan Poe, Lemony Snicket, Meg Cabot, D.J. MacHale, Gail Carson Levine, Jules Verne, and J.K. Rowling.
My Master’s poetry thesis: http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/1506/
Society6 store: https://society6.com/writeinspiration/collection/my-stuff
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Work and Author Brand Links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Stephanie-Tillman-902927859755904/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanie-tillman-913b4a126
Fiverr (proofreading & editing): https://www.fiverr.com/bibliovalkyrie
Klout: https://klout.com/#/IridescentWings
Upwork: https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~01a0816e4e575f507b
Resume: http://www.internships.com/student/show/Stephanie-T-N181759
WordPress: https://stephanietillman.com/
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“If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads. I wish you a wrestling match with your Creative Muse that will last a lifetime. I wish craziness and foolishness and madness upon you. May you live with hysteria, and out of it make fine stories — science fiction or otherwise. Which finally means, may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.”
~Ray Bradbury