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,…… Continue reading Wait Without Hope
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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…… Continue reading Secret Third Way
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…… Continue reading Writer Life: Safety Net
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…… Continue reading an I Want song
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…… Continue reading Writer Life: Hope For the Wrong Thing
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…… Continue reading Writer Life | If A Storyteller Yells About Things In the Forest
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…… Continue reading Writer Life | Revision (or lack thereof) Check-In
Storycraft Review | The Thief & Slow Burn Stories
I didn’t like The Thief the first time I read it. That’s the simplest way to describe my reaction to it, anyway. It’s not exactly that I was bored by it, although there was an element of boredom. Maybe it’s that I was confused by it. I didn’t know what it was trying to do.…… Continue reading Storycraft Review | The Thief & Slow Burn Stories
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.…… Continue reading Writer Life | Revisions Check-In no. 1
Writer Life | Burnout ?
I’m terrified. Not to make you uncomfortably intimate with my negative emotions right up front, but I am terrified. It’s not a big deal. I was also terrified about this time last year, if I remember right, for what was amountedly the same reason as it is now. I may or may not have blogged…… Continue reading Writer Life | Burnout ?