Welcome!

Hi, Y'all! My name is Ilse, just call me Ilzz (it's easier, trust me!) and I would like to welcome you to the wonderful world of well, my right brain! I love art and I want to share everything I love about it with you. Got a little something for everyone-Check out the embedded links …

Revisions: Working on Chapter 1 – The Saga Continues

Want to look through that window and see more of what editing and revising looks like? Let's take another peek. I'll kick off with a GREAT resource I found! Susan Dennard, author of the Something Strange & Deadly Series and The Witchland Series, whom I mentioned in my post from 7/22/17, has created a giant list of her processes …

Working on Revisions – Rewriting a Descriptive Scene

I am currently sitting at my computer with a pile of papers around me, working on my first draft revisions. I came across a setting I had created early on in my writing of this book, The Rendin Chronicles. At the time, I had thought, "Wow! This is such a beautiful scene I wrote!" As I …

Current Projects as of 7/22/17 – A lot about NaNoWriMo

Hi, y'all! Let's dive right in and I'll tell you a little bit about what I am currently working on. Last November, I became obsessed with something called NaNoWriMo and in April and now July, I turned to Camp NaNoWriMo. Short blurb about what NaNoWriMo is. NaNoWriMo stands for "National Novel Writing Month." It takes …

In the end…

I would like to dedicate my first music posting to the late Chester Bennington. Songs are a beautiful thing. You can lose yourself in them. You can leave your world, your circumstance, and your pain in them. Songs can whisk you away to another dimension of emotions. Music has always helped me get through the …

What a sight!

These photos were all shot by yours truly, looking out on the beaches of Pismo and Avila on the Central Coast of beautiful San Luis Obispo County, California. Click on the thumbnails and have a gander. More pictures coming soon! -Ilzz