This weekend brings one of (if not the absolute) my favorite events of the year: the University District Street Fair. So of course I’ve been mostly anticipating that instead of doing anything very productive. In my defense, I ALSO spent … Continue reading →

Trying to get back on a schedule is hard. For a while, I was doing very well with writing; it was easy to at least sit down and do maybe about 1.5K words every day with about half an hour … Continue reading →

This hasn’t been a great week for writing, in the strict sense of “sit down, write your actual coherent scenes and your characters interacting,” but it’s been really great for scene snapshots. It’s not a technical term. The scene snapshot … Continue reading →

Social media is hard for me. When you start trying writing on the pro side, submitting pieces and books and getting paid for them, you’re completely inundated with the advice. Get a Twitter, get a Facebook, get a blog and … Continue reading →

I am conflicted by conflict. (There’s a sentence for you.) As a person in my daily life I am not fond of it. I don’t seek it out, and I don’t want to try encouraging it. As a writer I … Continue reading →

(Just to clarify, I’m not going anywhere. The good-byes are more abstract, for me.) I’ve been thinking about good-byes a lot lately. Not just in a sad sense, though obviously there’s a huge element of that at play most of … Continue reading →

(Or maybe I should call it cherrypicking? Sorry. Sorry.) I’ve been thinking a lot about fairytales again. Weird as it sounds, I’d blame the weather for it. Spring is a time of transition in my mind. Maybe it is for … Continue reading →

Just a quick update to say I’m not dead! I’ve definitely been having some on-again off-again health things (and the attendant anxiety that comes with said health things), but I do actually believe it’s all under control at this point. … Continue reading →

For various reasons, this has to be a quick entry. (Well, quick as I can usually make things — which, when unedited, is not very.) Most of this is related to health; I went to the doctor for a general … Continue reading →

So, in true vacation style, I only got a few of the things done that I meant to. In review, I’d say it was about 50% successful in terms of “getting non-dayjob stuff done at all.” I managed to write … Continue reading →

You can, in fact, go home again. (That’s where I am right now, in fact: my parents’ home, my childhood home, on the other side of the country from my usual home. My parents and I agreed a long time … Continue reading →

While chatting with my roommates last week, we ended up discussing the idea of character serendipity — which we defined as that moment when a character (or characters) in a story have a consistent and interesting arc and personality, and … Continue reading →

Phew, what a week! I slacked off, writing-wise, for most of this week. Partly because I had a belated Valentine’s Day date (we went out on Friday instead of Wednesday), but also because I was involved with some stuff with … Continue reading →

If the timing could have been worked out, I would do a post on Valentine’s Day itself to talk about romantic tropes that I enjoy in fiction, both in reading and writing. But I’m trying to keep this blog on … Continue reading →

Here’s a series of convoluted thoughts for you: commentary about Seattle weather led me to thinking about how social bubbles are so, so easy to fall into. The weather for the past week has been gray and overcast when it … Continue reading →