A month or two ago I said I would have some announcements about what was coming up next for my writing. I wanted to share where my head has been. Please check in on my Books page or Events page for upcoming dates as they are firmed up. As you probably know, I have been... Continue Reading →
Climate change and contemporary sff
A few weeks ago Barnes and Noble published a blogpost entitled "Does Science Fiction Have a Moral Imperative to Address Climate Change?" This is an interesting, if leading question - this post ended up being more of a survey of the small subgenre of "cli-fi" - climate change driven science fiction. It's a subgenre near... Continue Reading →
Reflections on women in anime: Sailor Moon
I watch a lot of anime. This is probably the thing I consume the most of in video form, actually. I'm not a huge fan of domestic television, mostly because it goes on forever and never gets anywhere, or randomly gets somewhere too fast (I'm looking at you, Dollhouse) but anime tends to really jive... Continue Reading →
Realism, happy endings, writing
When I started writing I understood how to write a happy ending. And then, for a while, I lost that magic. I used to think that my writing had to be serious and dark, the kind of thing you could cut yourself on. I thought of this as the kind of art that real artists... Continue Reading →
The gray area of consent
One of the things that can be really powerful about narrative is the way that it explores issues that we are currently wrestling with, either as a collective or personally. I've talked about this idea before, and so have many others. So today I'm going to continue some thoughts I've expressed in other posts with... Continue Reading →
Making a plan for writing
I have a work plan so I can keep up with my monthly To Do List. It looks like this: There are good parts of having a work plan. For example, I always know what I want to be working on next. Sort of. I mean I know what I wanted to be working on... Continue Reading →
Dororo: who has the right to your body?
And we're back! Spoilers for Dororo this week, previously discussed in this post. The baby should never have lived. Hyakkimaru, the rightful heir to the Daigo name, was meant to die. His death, in the mind of his father, was necessary, noble. It was right. Hyakkimaru belonged to him. If Kagemitsu chose to give his... Continue Reading →
Blogging resumes this week!
I've got some pretty varied content lined up over the next few weeks and I feel a lot more inspired to be doing this again. A break was what the doctor ordered. See you Friday!
General housekeeping/hiatus
Hey folks! It's August, and August is my birthday month, so I'm taking some time off. I've been pretty wiped out recently due to some wrestling with personal and dayjob stuff, plus it's summer and summer is a rollercoaster for me. I suspect other people find that summer is a time that helps them rejuvenate.... Continue Reading →
How to Suppress Women’s Writing: Some reflections
If you've been on Twitter recently, you may have seen a post like this one floating across your Newsfeed. https://twitter.com/matociquala/status/1148275988679266304 This post arises in direct response to the review of a book, The Future is Female, an anthology which came out last year and which focuses on women writers from the 1920s to the 1960s,... Continue Reading →
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