Announcing: RESURRECTIONS
Yesterday Apex Books gave Twitter users a sneak peak of the cover art for RESURRECTIONS - a new collection coming up on December 19. But of course I want to...
Friday Chatter: Accomplishments
The votes are in! There was a wide variety of different opinions about posting schedule, but we’re going with the most popular options: a paid essay every 2...
The Bittersweetness of a Finished Draft
If you're wondering about the results of last week's poll, I can't tell you yet - we still have one more day before it closes! There's still time to vote if...
A poll! Actually, 3 polls!
Happy August! So I hardly ever do this, but for the past few months I’ve been seriously rethinking how I do my schedule, and the Substack schedule is part of...
Enough.
This weekend, after listening patiently to my angst, a close friend told me to write down what "enough" looks like. (I had been complaining that I didn't...
Friday Chatter: Shapeshifting
In response to my review of “A Dragon In Two Parts,” Kiya Nicoll posted this meme: What would you do with your body if the sky was the limit?
Autistic Book Party, Episode 79 and a half: Short Story Smorgasbord
Over on Wordpress, it’s time for a Short Story Smorgasbord! It’s been a while since we had one of these, and I’ve also been getting better at keeping up with...
Friday Chatter: Venting
This week’s post was about venting techniques, in a sense. What venting techniques work for you? What helps you feel like you really “got a problem off your...
The Complaining Notes
One of the things I'm learning in therapy is how not to panic. This isn't an explicitly stated goal. I didn't come in saying, "I want help not panicking." (I...
Friday Chatter: Memory
I’m still chewing on the quote that I shared on Tuesday from “The Winter Knight,” about how memory can be nonlinear, like “a snarl of lights that needed to...
Autistic Book Party, Episode 79: The Winter Knight
Autistic Book Party is back this week, with a look at Jes Battis’s dreamy, surreal urban fantasy, “The Winter Knight.” If you’ve been here since April this...
Friday Chatter: AI Creativity
I’m still reeling from the conference, tbh, and thinking about AI more than I should. The writers I’ve seen are pretty unanimous in saying we do not want AI...
Conference Highlights
I'm back from the Fourteenth International Conference on Computational Creativity. It was a whirlwind of a week. My scholarly contribution was minimal, but...
Away this week
No post this week because I am traveling! Specifically I am in Waterloo, Ontario, at the Fourteenth International Conference on Computational Creativity,...
Friday Chatter: Review
On Tuesday I talked about writing reviews, but now I want to hear about reading them. What’s one of the best / most enjoyable / most useful reviews you ever...
Friday Chatter: Review
On Tuesday I talked about writing reviews, but now I want to hear about reading them. What’s one of the best / most enjoyable / most useful reviews you ever...
To Pan Or Not To Pan: On Negative Reviews
I was thinking recently about negative reviews, spurred partly by Charles Payseur's post on the topic and by the recent Critical Friends episode featuring...
To Pan Or Not To Pan: On Negative Reviews
I was thinking recently about negative reviews, spurred partly by Charles Payseur's post on the topic and by the recent Critical Friends episode featuring...
Friday Chatter: Formats
If you’re a writer, what’s a writing format that you haven’t tried, but would like to - or a new format that you did try, at one point, that was very...
Friday Chatter: Formats
If you’re a writer, what’s a writing format that you haven’t tried, but would like to - or a new format that you did try, at one point, that was very...
