Welcome to Crystal Crawford's official author blog!

Right now as I'm writing this, it's the last day of September 2023... which means it's about to be Preptober! For those who aren't as...

Here are some things to consider before committing to the crunch of 50,000 words in November.

a brief bullet-point list of some of the things I learned from my frenzied first-time NaNoWriMo experience...

I am trying to walk in my gift, to use the talents I was given, to go for my dreams and to do some good in the process.

Author's note as of 9-2-20: This mess of a novel I mentioned in this post went on to become The Edge of Nothing, the first book in The...

2016 was my first attempt at NaNoWriMo. For the first few days, it rocked!  But then, I hit a snag: I hadn’t had time to outline very much b