Writing Life
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Labels.
I hear a lot of people say that they don’t want to be labeled, or not to label their children. Usually this is in response to having illnesses diagnosed, whether mental […]
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Done with this pandemic.
I haven’t written a lot about the pandemic this past year — mostly because everyone’s aware of it and pretty done with it. I’ve been as stressed as anyone else, […]
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Doing the work.
So here’s one of the things I notice about people, including me. I like to draw. I’m not amazing at it, but I do all right. The way I learned […]
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You lack the fire.
Once upon a time, a maestro violinist came to a small town. Many people who played came from miles around in order to play for the maestro and ask his […]
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Me vs. the Mafia
Let me preface this story with a mental image: I am 5’3″ and about 150 pounds, but I’m about 20 pounds overweight. I am not impressive. When I was 20, […]
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Musicality.
I guess I’ve had a really weird musical education. I didn’t realize it until my band was playing a birthday party, and a friend of the birthday boy wanted to […]
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Diversity in my fiction.
I’m really not as good at this as I could be. Part of that is my own blindness, and part of that is the community I currently live in — […]
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The course of plot.
I read a very interesting blog post the other day that a favorite author of mine shared on her Facebook page. It was entitled, “I don’t want to play the […]
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Skateboards and teeth.
Here’s something that actually happened to me one day. I was on a walk with my sister on a drizzly day. We walked past the local high school, where there […]
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Author level up!
I’m trying to, anyway. I keep hearing how the important thing in this authoring game is to just keep working on getting better and better, at whatever pace you can, […]
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