Adana K. Washington's Blog: Adana's Adventures in Noveling

I got one of the best emails today. It was from Kelly-Ann Maddox, a.k.a. The Four Queens, with her thoughts on The Orgasmic Way.

“This resource clarifies the importance of activating the lower chakras and offers illuminating prompts and exercises to trigger big positive shifts. Adana presents her approach confidently and her expansive understanding on the chakra system is obvious. This strategy is for people who want to show up in a whole new way and start seeing tangible results in their inn...

So I went to BN for coffee, but decided to find an adult paranormal novel to read. I asked the guy at the Customer Service desk, but I’m pretty sure I just confused him. So I decided to roam around.

A few minutes later, a nice lady came over to me and asked if I were looking for paranormal fiction. As it turns out, she’s a writer. I’d actually spoken with her a few weeks ago about book placement in the store.

She ended up not only suggesting a few books for me to read, but also some books to...

I’ve been working on my first novel for a couple of months now. In that time, I’ve been building a playlist to listen to while I write. Since I write on Google Drive and listen to my playlist on YouTube, I should probably acknowledge Google in my book at some point.

I’ve gotten in the habit of listening to it to get me in the writing mindset. I’ve finished a little over a quarter of the book, and it’s coming along quite nicely. Mind you, I’ve restarted the damn thing four or five times now. Bu...

I’ve been rather quiet online lately. Mostly because I’ve been spending all of my free time (for the most part) working on my novel. I’ve read several books, taking dozens of pages of notes, and created histories and character profiles. And it’s all been paying off. Especially after I started reading Plot Perfect by Paula Munier. Very helpful, and it seems like it was exactly what I needed to get me on the right track with my book.

I’ve gone through sixty more index cards and and halfway throu...

I couldn’t even begin to count the number of times I’ve been asked about my astrological sign. Nine out of every ten people I meet wants to know my sign, to get a glimpse of who I am and how well we’d get along. Of course, seven out of ten of them are shocked that I’m a Leo, and I feel the need to explain that my rising sign is Aquarius. To which they typically respond with an, “Ahhh…”

But when you’re trying to find out the chances of being compatible with a person who is to become a significa...

As you know, I’m working on my first novel. Very super exciting.

I’ve decided on a name for the book: The Common Divine. Here’s the blurb for the back of the book:

Before you can see the light, you must first deal with the darkness.

It’s not easy to see the good in life when you’ve lost everything. Talia Davis knows this better than most. So when something new and terrifying happens because of her, Talia can only hope that the stranger staring at her can really help her figure things out. Not th...

As you all know, I’ve started working on my first novel. I finally got a good outline written down, and was ready to start working on my first draft. Ready and itching to get started.

That was about a week ago. And I still haven’t started on that first draft. Just couldn’t bring myself to do it.But as it turns out, that was a good thing.

I did a tarot reading about it last night, using The Orgasmic Way Tarot Spread. The Message from the Universe was Strength. Which almost doesn’t make sense unt...

If you’re following me on Tumblr or Twitter, then you’ve probably seen a few of my posts tagged with the word ‘noveling.’ Between the weird tag and my lengthening stretches of online quiet, I figured I’d take the time to explain what the hell is going on.

I’ve mentioned this before on Tumblr back in December, in a random post written after watching a January Tarotscope video. But for the rest of you, the reason I’ve been so quiet on and off for the past few days is because I’m working on a new...

I’ve been watching more videos of people talking. One of those people is Kate Northrup, author of Money: A Love Story. And two things she’s said in a couple of videos have really struck a chord with me. One of them really hits home because it’s a thought that’s been in my head for the longest time.

The first things was from her talk at Wanderlust’s Speakeasy a couple years ago. She explained to the audience that money hits us in our second chakra. Then she proceeded to make everyone stand up a...