Autistic Book Party, Episode 69: From a Shadow Grave
Today’s Autistic Book Party is a very special guest post! Richard Ford Burley’s review of “From a Shadow Grave” can be found here. For those of you who want...
Autistic Book Party, Episode 69: From a Shadow Grave
Today’s Autistic Book Party is a very special guest post! Richard Ford Burley’s review of “From a Shadow Grave” can be found here. For those of you who want...
Friday Chatter: End of April
We’re almost at the end of Autism Month. This year I didn’t do much special to commemorate the month - I had a lot of other stuff going on, so it was...
Friday Chatter: End of April
We’re almost at the end of Autism Month. This year I didn’t do much special to commemorate the month - I had a lot of other stuff going on, so it was...
Manipulation
Something I've been thinking about lately is the role of manipulation in autistic fiction - villains who are manipulative, autistic characters who are prone...
Manipulation
Something I've been thinking about lately is the role of manipulation in autistic fiction - villains who are manipulative, autistic characters who are prone...
Friday Chatter: Taking Space
RB Lemberg’s THE UNBALANCING has a lot to say about the need to take time, move slowly, and ruminate after something surprising happens. Where do you see...
Friday Chatter: Taking Space
RB Lemberg’s THE UNBALANCING has a lot to say about the need to take time, move slowly, and ruminate after something surprising happens. Where do you see...
Autistic Book Party, Episode 68: The Unbalancing
Today we’re talking about RB Lemberg’s debut novel, THE UNBALANCING. Autistic Book Party posts are hosted on my main site, so head over there now and see why...
Autistic Book Party, Episode 68: The Unbalancing
Today we’re talking about RB Lemberg’s debut novel, THE UNBALANCING. Autistic Book Party posts are hosted on my main site, so head over there now and see why...
Neurodivergent Communities in THE FALLEN
Much of the action in THE FALLEN centers around a group of characters - Yasira, Tiv, and seven others - who share certain things in common. They're all...
Neurodivergent Communities in THE FALLEN
Much of the action in THE FALLEN centers around a group of characters - Yasira, Tiv, and seven others - who share certain things in common. They're all...
Friday Chatter: Reaching Out
Jay pointed out in a comment that many kinds of escapism can be thought of, not as an escape from the demands of reality, but as a reaching out to meet needs...
Friday Chatter: Reaching Out
Jay pointed out in a comment that many kinds of escapism can be thought of, not as an escape from the demands of reality, but as a reaching out to meet needs...
Ways of Escaping
A reader asked me to share my thoughts about "escapism" - the idea that we use fiction to escape or avoid the problems of real life. Escapism can be thought...
Ways of Escaping
A reader asked me to share my thoughts about "escapism" - the idea that we use fiction to escape or avoid the problems of real life. Escapism can be thought...
Friday Chatter: Words
I was a bit negative about the concept of words this Tuesday. What’s a time when using, or hearing someone use, the precisely correct words has been helpful...
Friday Chatter: Words
I was a bit negative about the concept of words this Tuesday. What’s a time when using, or hearing someone use, the precisely correct words has been helpful...
Autism Acceptance: Words Are Not Enough
As Autism Whatevers Month (awareness, acceptance, activism...) fast approaches, I am thinking of the state of the world for autistic people. In my corner of...
Friday Chatter: Structure
Let’s talk about structure. If you write, what helps give structure to your writing sessions? If you don’t write, what helps give structure to the rest of...
Games and Structure
Since we were talking last time about tricks that help people write, I should mention one other little trick that I enjoy doing. For the past couple of years...
Games and Structure
Since we were talking last time about tricks that help people write, I should mention one other little trick that I enjoy doing. For the past couple of years...
Friday Chatter: Otherworldly
It’s a truism that autistic readers are often drawn to non-human fictional creatures, and Andi C. Buchanan’s “Below Salt-Heavy Tides” deals with that theme...
Friday Chatter: Otherworldly
It’s a truism that autistic readers are often drawn to non-human fictional creatures, and Andi C. Buchanan’s “Below Salt-Heavy Tides” deals with that theme...
Autistic Book Party, Episode 67 and a Half: Short Story Smorgasbord
Today’s post is a Short Smorgasbord reviewing works by five fabulous autistic authors! Read it on my main website here.
Autistic Book Party, Episode 67 and a Half: Short Story Smorgasbord
Today’s post is a Short Smorgasbord reviewing works by five fabulous autistic authors! Read it on my main website here.
Friday Chatter: Tricks
Building on Tuesday’s post (or perhaps gleefully contradicting it): What tricks do you use to keep yourself productive at your own writing? Do they work for...
Friday Chatter: Tricks
Building on Tuesday’s post (or perhaps gleefully contradicting it): What tricks do you use to keep yourself productive at your own writing? Do they work for...
The One Weird Trick (that doesn't exist) For Finishing A Novel
A week ago, right at the deadline, I handed in the full manuscript of Book 3 of the Outside series to my publisher. It will need a couple of rounds of...
The One Weird Trick (that doesn't exist) For Finishing A Novel
A week ago, right at the deadline, I handed in the full manuscript of Book 3 of the Outside series to my publisher. It will need a couple of rounds of...
Friday Chatter: Expansion
In my review of The Book Eaters I mention how books are portrayed as something that can both expand the mind and limit it. But today I feel like focusing on...
Friday Chatter: Expansion
In my review of The Book Eaters I mention how books are portrayed as something that can both expand the mind and limit it. But today I feel like focusing on...
Autistic Book Party, Episode 67: The Book Eaters
Today’s post is a review of Sunyi Dean’s upcoming debut novel, The Book Eaters. You can read it on my Autistic Book Party website, here. Meanwhile, some...
Autistic Book Party, Episode 67: The Book Eaters
Today’s post is a review of Sunyi Dean’s upcoming debut novel, The Book Eaters. You can read it on my Autistic Book Party website, here. Meanwhile, some...
Trauma In Fiction: Coping and Growing
We talk sometimes about reading or writing about traumatic topics as a way of coping with trauma. And while that's absolutely a thing people do, I think...
Trauma In Fiction: Coping and Growing
We talk sometimes about reading or writing about traumatic topics as a way of coping with trauma. And while that's absolutely a thing people do, I think...
Friday Chatter: Animism
I want to write more about this “animism” thing, but I feel I’ve been going in circles. So I’m going to open it up to you fine folks. Do you experience a...
Friday Chatter: Animism
I want to write more about this “animism” thing, but I feel I’ve been going in circles. So I’m going to open it up to you fine folks. Do you experience a...
The House and the Body
I've been trying to talk more about the idea of a house being alive in its own right, but what I've actually been thinking about lately is a house as a...
The House and the Body
I've been trying to talk more about the idea of a house being alive in its own right, but what I've actually been thinking about lately is a house as a...
Friday Chatter: Self-Care
What are some of your favorite self-care activities? Doesn’t matter if they’re based on stimming and special interests or not, or if they’re done in a...
Friday Chatter: Self-Care
What are some of your favorite self-care activities? Doesn’t matter if they’re based on stimming and special interests or not, or if they’re done in a...
Autism and Self-Care
I was talking with some autistic friends recently about the concept of self-care. It's a phrase that gets bandied about a lot and has many conflicting...
Autism and Self-Care
I was talking with some autistic friends recently about the concept of self-care. It's a phrase that gets bandied about a lot and has many conflicting...
Friday Chatter: Emotions
In my review of “Love/Hate,” I talk about the author’s refreshing approach to autism and emotions. Claire and other characters, autistic and otherwise, are...
Friday Chatter: Emotions
In my review of “Love/Hate,” I talk about the author’s refreshing approach to autism and emotions. Claire and other characters, autistic and otherwise, are...
Autistic Book Party, Episode 66: Love/Hate
I’m sorry this post is a day late! I’ve been recovering from dental surgery. But in the meantime we have a fresh new episode of Autistic Book Party up on my...
Friday Chatter: Turning Corners
Tuesday’s post was about redemption arcs, and how to dig into more concrete questions about the problems a character will face when they are trying to change...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Redemption Arcs
Every once in a while Book Twitter gets on to the topic of redemption arcs - character arcs where an evil or villainous character sees the error of their...
Friday Chatter: Negative Space
One of the things I liked about “The Language Birds Speak,” in this week’s Short Story Smorgasbord, is the way it wrote Gracie’s dialogue. It wasn’t just...