Insomniatic Writings
Insomniatic Writings (click to enlarge) So Mary Robinette Kowal posted about her writing space and asked about ours and C.N.Holmberg posted about the need for writers to meditate and ponder over their...
View ArticleAlpha-Reading
Whether or not you can write or edit, everyone reading this–hopefully–can read. (I know, bad joke.) Today I want to talk about what I have learned about the skills necessary for alpha- or...
View ArticleAnti-Discouragement Pill
Last year I got really discouraged with my rough-draft writing. I wanted whatever I was writing to come out exactly the way I wanted it to go on the first try. In other words, I didn’t want writing...
View Article2013 Report
Continuing in the ultimate feel-good post tradition, I’m really enjoying making these! (Here are 2012‘s and 2011‘s to compare.) In Memoriam This year I - With the help of an artist friend, put...
View ArticleChanging Focus
So…these past six months or so I’ve been really struggling with discouragement in regards to my writing. This is in large part due to the growing suspicion that what I really want to write isn’t...
View ArticleMy alpha/beta-reading CV
The past month has been extremely crazy due to a rather serious medical emergency in my immediate family, (I’ve been among the primary caregivers.) Hopefully I should be around more from now on, but I...
View Article2014 in Review
This year I Went through a full submission process for my novella Queen of the Eight Banners, then decided to use the novella to keep experimenting with publication formats. Hello, Wattpad. Wrote a...
View ArticleDisappointments in Final Books
I jotted down this list last summer, after I’d read a lot of final books in trilogies/series and found that a lot of them were disappointing for the same set of reasons. I wanted to write up the list...
View ArticleDisappointments in Final Books
I jotted down this list last summer, after I’d read a lot of final books in trilogies/series and found that a lot of them were disappointing for the same set of reasons. I wanted to write up the list...
View ArticleFrom coniferous forest to….
Currently pausing forward progress on my novel rough draft by going back and readjusting/revising generic mountainous forest setting description to…this. Aka I did my research wrong in the beginning...
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