How are you, friends? Long time no chat. I haven't written at all this week. I was really down on myself about it, but then I realized that a) I'm ahead of my goals for my wordcount this year anyway and b) I'm about to take on a really hard scene and maybe I just... Continue Reading →
Turning to history
There’s a lot going on in the political theatre right now and, if we’re all honest with ourselves, there has been for a while. A lot of that is fueled by the presence of climate change but some of it is the natural cycle of modern human societies, wherein the powerful do their best to... Continue Reading →
The Darkest Time of Year and Goals for 2025
It's 2025, and I'm in my annual social media detox, which, combined with the ever-present darkness, has left me with a lot of time for thoughts. Yes, I did this on purpose, being desirous of having thoughts, getting back to writing those thoughts in a blog form, and also making words on the page. Also,... Continue Reading →
Year End Recap
Good evening, hello there, howdy do! I vanished for the fall, and I'm just popping in to say some things about 2024, as one does in December. Probably no "Best of" posts this year, because I am generally otherwise occupied right now, but I did want to celebrate my accomplishments this year, as is tradition.... Continue Reading →
Things to know about having a baby (in three parts)
Hi, so you had a baby and you're writing and also working a dayjob. Welcome to a fiasco. Buckle up. Here's some things -- specifically my things, specifically things that happened to me. Let's go. Part A: The Biology Thing 1: Breastfeeding takes up more of your time than you possibly think it could and... Continue Reading →
Baby brain and meanderings
I downloaded this chapbook from Brain Jar Press called From Baby Brain to Writer Brain. It's the reflections of one author on how to come back to a creative life post-matrescence. Matrescence is a cool word I learned thanks to NPR that describes pretty accurately what having a baby feels like. There was me before,... Continue Reading →
Blog things
So you may have noticed I haven't been writing much! That doesn't look likely to let up soon. I've paused my Patreon, and will probably be unpublishing (though this means that I will be charged higher fees if I ever publish my page again, and I'm considering that in my decision making over the next... Continue Reading →
Notes from the trenches
Hello, folks! Your friendly author here! This blog has been a little quiet because I've been running around doing author events and dayjob stuff and generally not reading much or having many fun adventures to talk to you about. I am absolutely itchy to be wrapped up with my current grant, even though it has... Continue Reading →
A reading slump and some ARCs
Today's post is a list of the ARCs I have in my TBR because I'm in a reading slump and I'm therefore having trouble getting through my tiny stack. Some of these books are out already -- some I've read earlier iterations of, even! I'm pretty sure I'm going to review all of these eventually,... Continue Reading →
Social media, artificial intimacy, voyeurism
I've been doing some naval gazing around my social media strategies over the past month or so, ever since my largest platform, Twitter, went through some major upheavals that may eventually result in the company going under. Creatives of all stripes are caught firmly in the grip of social media and web strategies to try... Continue Reading →
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