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...
