Writing Life
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Finish it!
I’ve noticed that beginning writers tend to have this one thing they all do. Okay, there’re several things they all seem to do, but I’m just going to get weird […]
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Penguins are awesome.
No lie. So when I was about thirteen, I went to visit my father in California. He asked if I wanted to do anything special in California while I was […]
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I’m just me.
Just in case you were looking for some sort of professional author with a slick look and fashionable turn out who’s eloquent and interesting, I hate to tell you. It’s […]
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Why the hell am I crying?
I burst into tears the other day at a friend’s funeral. This might not seem so odd. And indeed, I had been teary-eyed off and on through the service and […]
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Stealing shit.
(This post wound up getting pretty long, I guess I have more to say about world-building than I thought! Buckle up!) In a previous post, I mentioned that I totally […]
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Finding courage.
I don’t know where it came from. I really don’t. If you’ve read previous posts, you know that sales and marketing has been terrifying me from the first time I […]
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Damn, I’m good.
So I’m working on a companion story for my faerie book. It’s the back story of the love interest, who’s half-faerie and half-human. He was raised in Faerie by his […]
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Ancient humans.
I find ancient history really, really interesting. I don’t know why. I guess I just find it so unlikely that creatures like humans would just walk out of the forest […]
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The feminist child.
I have always been a feminist. I didn’t know what that word meant when I was a little girl, but I was one, and here’s the thing about that: No […]
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Trigger warnings.
I’ve always felt that trigger warnings on stories are unhelpful, maybe intended to be sensitive by people who don’t really know how to be sensitive or who might need it. […]
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