When I first started writing fiction, it felt like everything I wrote was either under 1,000 words or over 10,000… and the short fiction markets prefer the lengths between those two extremes. In fact, different fiction markets have different “sweet Read more
You want to look cute. You also want to not freeze to death. Strangely, women’s clothing seems to be designed to either be cute or not freezing but never both. Maybe it’s an obsession with showing the skin, but whatever. Read more
This week, I had a guest blog on Asimov’s, about writing science fiction poetry in a 14th Century French style. I used notes I wrote a decade ago to teach the Triolet style at SCA events. Reading those notes felt Read more
In Second Grade, our teacher said we would Make Books. She had a special book stapler, and a collection of wallpaper samples we could pick for our covers. First we would write out our stories and count the words so Read more
Checking my analytics, these are the blog posts that got the most page views for 2019:
I started keeping a journal in sixth grade English class. I still have that much-doodled yellow folder. There’s a certain lack of candor in it, not knowing how to say exactly how I feel yet. It was a dark time Read more
This blog post topic was suggested by Svetlana del Rey Now, I’m no physicist, but I am a time travel nut. The very first stories I wrote as a kid all had time travel in them. Blame Dr. Who. My Read more