Month: August 2020

• Five

  

  It was unreasonably sunny, after the ordeal we’d had. Kayla–not yet two–had experienced the worst possible first flight. She’d been sick and unable to sleep, and while I’d struggled to soothe her, the creepy flight attendant had flirted with me all night. I’d also been motion sick, overheated, and generally uncomfortable, but all of it…

  Yolandie Horak

  August 24, 2020

  Immigration, Personal

  Emmigration, Immigrant, Immigration, Immigration Update, Living Abroad, Living in a new Country, Maple Days, Maple Mondays, Personal, South African Abroad, South African Living Abroad

• Let’s Write PTSD

  

  Updated in 2022 I touched a slight bit on PTSD in the Let’s Write Fear post, but I figure this is a complex emotional state and needs more detail. This is a post about how traumatic events might influence characters, which means traumatic events will be mentioned. Not in detail, but they’re there. Please don’t…

  Yolandie Horak

  August 18, 2020

  Writing

  Anxiety, Character Development, Emotions, Let’s Write, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD, Resources, Stuff for Writers, Writer, Writer’s Life, Writers’ Resources, Writing, Writing Advice, Writing Emotions, Writing Life, Writing PTSD

• Down the Rabbit Hole, We Go

  

  As a writer, I have to know about writing, tropes, self-editing, working with professional editors, and that kind of thing. The obvious stuff. What they don’t tell you when you enter this rabbit hole, is you also have to know about cover trends, blurbs, sensitivity readers, trigger warnings, marketing, and how to unravel the algorithms…

  Yolandie Horak

  August 17, 2020

  Writing

  A Study of Ash & Smoke, ASOAAS, Cara, Characters, Fall of the Mantle, Fall of the Mantle Book 1, Indie Writers, Writer, Writer’s Life, Writing, Writing Community, Writing Life, Writing Update