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Your villain is a question; Your hero must be the answer.
A common sentiment among writers, from novelists to screenwriters, is that villains are more interesting to write than their heroic...
Zara Day
Jul 295 min read
16 Apr, 2025: New seeds of a book idea?
I rarely capture the moment a new idea for a book comes to be, but this was genuinely fascinating as ideas go, and it all stemmed from a...
Zara Day
Apr 161 min read
16 Jan, 2025: On the topic of complacency
It is said that consistency and staying on course is a virtue. Cowards say this. One who subscribes to the sentiment of staying true...
Zara Day
Jan 162 min read
7 Jan, 2025: Columbian Updates
One of the worst things about setting a goal for the year is that feeling if you can't do it. I gave myself a goal to finish a book every...
Zara Day
Jan 71 min read
8 Jul, 2024: Short stories and other stories
A blog post less than a week after the last? I'm unstoppable. Really, though, I just wanted to talk about a couple of things that...
Zara Day
Jul 8, 20242 min read
2 Jul, 2024: Highlighting Mundanity
I just finished my first short story, a companion piece to my latest novel, Free Drifter. It was my way of dealing with the negative...
Zara Day
Jul 2, 20242 min read
14 May, 2024: Publisher Emailed Me, But I'm Declining
This afternoon, I found an email in my inbox from Olympia, the group I talked about earlier this month. They have stated their interest...
Zara Day
May 14, 20242 min read
1 May, 2024: I Submitted Free Drifter to a Publisher
A few days ago, I submitted my finished manuscript to Olympia Publishers, an independent publishing house that allowed me to submit it...
Zara Day
May 1, 20242 min read
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