Wait Without Hope

I don’t remember where, but I came across some article about how to write blog posts if you’re trying to grow your authorial platform. Of course you have to write about writing, but, according to the article, no one wants to read about what you’re writing. You have to write advice posts for the readers,……

Secret Third Way

incoming: bummer post about the inevitable inferiority complex of the fantasy writer. I read The Sentence by Louise Erdrich and Obit by Victoria Chang in quick succession and I’ve been accosted by the fact that I’m a genre hack for the entire two weeks since. Thesis statement: Reading important things terrifies me. I’ve never grown……

Writer Life: Safety Net

I was a little late, but on September 3rd (or 4th, maybe? it’s a blur), I completed Writer’s Month 2022, a Tumblr writing challenge. Thirty-one days, two prompts a day, one week to finish each ficlet “on time.” Except for three prompts, all of my ficlets were fanfiction. I’m not a huge fanfic reader and……

an I Want song

I remembered a dream today. That isn’t anything particularly extraordinary about that, so maybe I should rephrase: I had a dream I wanted to remember today. When I woke up, I was still full of the dream-feeling, so I clung to my dream-memory with my waking brain’s fingernails until I was awake enough to type……

Writer Life: Hope For the Wrong Thing

Prescript: I wrote this post in bits and pieces at least a month ago. Some things have changed since then, mostly for the better. My period of burnout has, at least for one project, blown over. But I want to keep this writing on my blog, because even if the time in which I wrote……

Four Months After the Hurricane

I was going to describe the hurricane, but that’s something I don’t want to go back to today. If you know how hurricanes are, then you know how this one was. Wind, rain, a chimney drooling puddles on the floor. I couldn’t stay in one place – kept jamming the flashlight up against every window……

Making

I’ve almost “quit writing” a lot. Probably once every year during college. I’ve dragged my “Novels” folder into the trash a few times. It’s never stuck. I think it might be different this time. I started writing fanfic a little while back. It was 2017, I think. Ficlets here and there, nothing impressive, for a……

Writer Life | If A Storyteller Yells About Things In the Forest

Martha Wells’s Network Effect, the fifth Murderbot story and the first full-length Murderbot novel, dropped this Tuesday. I’ve only read (and loved) the first novella, but I’m automatically excited for more Murderbot. I like robots who feel things. Like robots who feel things, I also feel things but fail to appreciate, understand, or respond appropriately……

Writer Life | Revision (or lack thereof) Check-In

You could probably tell by the date this will be posted (Monday, not Saturday or even Sunday) that I haven’t been doing much writing. There are good reasons for that, which make no sense to me emotionally and which I refuse to accept as an excuse or justification. This being a time of global unease……

Writer Life | Revisions Check-In no. 1

If it makes you feel any better, I didn’t do any novel-revising on the days I should have been novel-revising, either, just like I didn’t spend my blog-writing days blog-writing. Weekends are the pits and I should not try to make Saturday my blog day. What’s wrong with Wednesdays? Maybe I’ll shift them to Wednesdays.……