Category: CORRODED

• Repeats

  2015 has been a year of edits. Multiple rounds of edits on my first novel, Fortitude, carried me through winter and spring. In between those, I reworked my second novel, Corroded, to be submission ready for my publisher. (I signed the contract for it in April.) Over the summer, I worked on my messy work-in-progress,…

  Carrie Dalby

  September 22, 2015

  AUTHORSHIP, Beliefs, CORRODED, Editing, FORTITUDE, Historical Fiction, INSPIRATION, LIFE, Memories, PUBLISHING, READING, WIP Work-in-Progress, WRITING, young adult

  Carrie Dalby, Historical Fiction, PUBLISHING, WRITING

• Corroded

  Last week, on April Fool’s Day (no joke), I signed my second book contract with Anaiah Press. Fortunately, there is no video footage of my happy dance. That would be awkward, almost as uncomfortable as admitting it happened in the first place. The “new book” is Corroded, a young adult, contemporary novel. Corroded has been…

  Carrie Dalby

  April 7, 2015

  ASD Autism Spectrum Disorders, AUTHORSHIP, Autism, Awareness, Beliefs, CORRODED, CURRENT EVENTS, Fernando, ferns, Friends, LIFE, PUBLISHING, WRITING

  Carrie Dalby, Mobile Bay Area, PUBLISHING, WRITING

• Corroded Images

  Last month I posted about my photographic journey through the backyard while seeking inspiration. Among images captured were items in various stages of rust. For the newer visitors, CORRODED is the (working) title of one of my finished manuscripts. Since writing the novel, I’ve been seeking out corrosion and rust in everyday life. There is…

  Carrie Dalby

  August 13, 2014

  CORRODED, Creativity, INSPIRATION

• Highs and Lows

  A writing life is full of its own highs and lows and this week, though it’s just beginning, has both. How do I know? I’ve already experienced the spectrum of emotions. Good news first: I passed twenty-five thousand words on the first draft of FORTITUDE. Most days I’m making myself write first thing in the…

  Carrie Dalby

  April 30, 2013

  Balance, CORRODED, Critque, ferns, Firsts, FORTITUDE, INSPIRATION, LIFE, Mobile Writers Guild, Neurodivergent, WRITING

• Nourish Your Goals

  Did you catch my post earlier this month about ferns? I didn’t have to wait for the summer heat to test me or the fern. This past Sunday I had a minor freak-out about my writing goal—finishing the first draft of FORTITUDE—while I’m in my seventh month of waiting to hear back from publishers about…

  Carrie Dalby

  April 24, 2013

  Anxiety, Balance, CORRODED, ferns, FORTITUDE, Friends, Goals, INSPIRATION, LIFE, NATURE/SEASONS, trees, WIP Work-in-Progress