J.V. Montague
Recently, I made an Instagram post comparing my writing from 2019/2020, to 2022 to serve as encouragement, to show how I’ve gotten better, but it ended up making me melancholy. Objectively, I got better: my descriptions are more vivid, my dialogue has nuance, and my characters are deeper, yet something is missing. I improved, but […]
Act 1 May 26, 2021, at three in the morning on a stormy night, lightning struck and I was lying awake in bed. Thunder boomed and my mind was alight with a new story. I had just started writing a Romcom, but this new idea was beyond alluring. It was of adventures and action, love […]
I did not meet half of my writing goals for 2021. As a quick recap, my goals were: Release a series of short stories Revise the novel I was working on at the time/learn how to revise a novel Learn how to work with beta readers Publish Looking back at that old blog post, one […]
I never rest with my creative projects until I am forced to. My creativity, motivation, and mental health tend to take a dive before I take a break. That’s not a good thing. It’s not that I don’t understand the importance of rest, I absolutely do, but my mind doesn’t quiet when ask it to […]
I fall off the face of the Earth, then I crop back up again like nothing ever happened. Typical. Well, I’ve debuted! I’m now an ‘official’ author, doing official author things (like procrastinating on updating this site again). What have I debuted? On December 17, I released The Stolen Dagger, a short story that follows […]
The Golden Heart, the third book I have ever written, is unlike anything else I have ever created. While my process for it has been much the same as it has been in the past, now it feels more streamlined. While there are many, many flaws in this first draft, I am proud of my […]
As we near the end of November, many of you will be feeling a little frazzled and burnt out on your projects. But with plenty of time left to go, you need to try and avoid burnout as much as you can. As some background, this past summer I hit some of the worst burnout […]
Intro On October 31, it’ll be a year since I started this blog. I had big plans: grow this platform along with my Instagram, consistently document my writing journey, share short stories, advice, the lot of it. And here I am. The last time I updated on here was ten months ago with a shoddy […]
Do you remember how we all had such high hopes for a year with such a swanky number? This past year was disastrous for many reasons, but it pays no fool to focus on the negative. There were only two obvious things that weren’t terrible for me this year, and one of them was my […]
I’m riding that wave of starting a new book and I’m trying to keep the dread at bay.
J.V. Montague 