Midnight Maven Musings
Where chaos meets craft.
Behind-the-scenes thoughts,
poetic reflections, and creative
confessions from T.L. Johnson,
a romantic suspense author who
writes like a storm and edits like a scalpel.
Yes, there will be sass.
Grab a drink. Lower your guard. The Maven has thoughts.
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The Soft Rebellion of Showing Up Anyway
Some nights, the words come easy—like breath.
Other nights, I stare at the screen, already exhausted by the weight of my own expectations.
Still, I show up.
Not because I’m inspired.
Not because I’m disciplined.
But because there’s a version of me—tucked inside the girl I used to be—who thought it might be impossible to be here at all.
To write. To be seen. To build anything that lasts.
And yet… here we are.
Writing in the dark.
Screaming quietly into story.
There’s something sacred about showing up anyway.
About giving yourself space to be a mess and a maker in the same breath.
About refusing to polish the pain away.
This space, Midnight Maven Musings, is where I come when the words ache but still want to live.
Not everything here will be perfect.
But everything here will be real.
So pull up a chair.
I’m not promising neat.
I’m promising honest.
—T.L.
The Midnight Maven