Category: Goals

• Springing Along

  After finishing the first draft of my latest project at the end of March, I took a few days off to reset my mind. Powering through 118,000 words in just over two months merits a mini-break. Then, I dove into what I think was my final round–or next to final round–of self edits (draft twenty-four)…

  Carrie Dalby

  April 13, 2021

  AUTHORSHIP, Balance, Barren Devotion, Creativity, Critque, CURRENT EVENTS, Editing, Goals, Haunted Remains, Historical Fiction, INSPIRATION, LIFE, Mobile Writers Guild, Short Story, Southern Gothic, spring, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES, WIP Work-in-Progress, WRITING

  Carrie Dalby, Editing, Historical Fiction, literature, Mobile Alabama, Mobile Bay Area, Mobile Writers Guild, PUBLISHING, Southern Gothic, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES

• Gratitude Check In

  

  We’re halfway through November. Though life as we know it might not be what we expected a year ago, there are plenty of things to be thankful for. Yes, I write a lot of Gothic stories but I’m a Pollyanna at heart. I may not play “The Glad Game”, but I do have a window…

  Carrie Dalby

  November 16, 2020

  Christmas, Courtship and Courage, FORTITUDE, Goals, Gothic, Historical Fiction, HOLIDAYS, LIFE, Research, seasons, Short Story, Southern Gothic, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES, WIP Work-in-Progress, WRITING, young adult

  Carrie Dalby, Gothic, Historical Fiction, Mobile Alabama, Mobile Bay Area, Southern Gothic, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES, WRITING

• Winter Wonderland

  There is an epic level of awesomeness happening in my life right now, but where to begin? The basics—and I will expound on all of these things in my December newsletter next week, so if you haven’t yet, subscribe! I’m traveling and experiencing new things such as wintry weather in the Pocono Mountains. Cold and…

  Carrie Dalby

  November 27, 2018

  AUTHORSHIP, autumn, Claire O’Farrell, Courtship and Courage, CURRENT EVENTS, Family, FORTITUDE, Goals, Historical Fiction, Joe Walker, LIFE, NATURE/SEASONS, Perilous Confessions, Release Day, seasons, Short Story, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES, Travel, winter, WRITING

  Carrie Dalby, FORTITUDE, Gothic, Historical Fiction, literature, Perilous Confessions, PUBLISHING, Southern Gothic, THE POSSESSION CHRONICLES, young adult

• Another Bucket List Item Done

  Over three years ago I wrote about checking off the first of my Bucket List goals: seeing my favorite band, Europe, in concert. A few months later, I experienced another: visiting Biltmore Estate in North Carolina. By the end of 2015, a third—my first novel was published that December. Today I’m here to say I’ve completed the…

  Carrie Dalby

  October 9, 2018

  concerts, CURRENT EVENTS, Europe, Firsts, Goals, LIFE, Mitch Malloy, MUSIC

  Carrie Dalby, Mitch Malloy

• Kid Lit 101

  As many of you know, my first passion in the book word is middle grade literature. Though a late reader, I began devouring novels like The Babysitters-Club Series as they were published and ghost stories by Betty Ren Wright in fourth grade, but by sixth grade I was ready for more. I fell in love…

  Carrie Dalby

  June 19, 2018

  AUTHORSHIP, CURRENT EVENTS, Goals, Gothic, INSPIRATION, Katherine Paterson, LIFE, middle grade, READING, WRITING, young adult

  Carrie Dalby, Gothic, Historical Fiction, literature, WRITING