Well, this is all pretty terrible, huh?
Since COVID-19 started getting serious, I’ve been sewing masks.
Writing is work, but it’s also a luxury. (Please see Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs before leaving angry comments.) My publisher is still hard at work doing their thing, so Pharos still has a chance of coming out this year, but the making of new words is on hold while I do things that are more important right now.
Continue reading “Pandemic! At the Sewing Machine” →I’m stuck at home for a while, and if you’re doing your part for public health, so are you. So I decided to share a road trip game my friends and I have played for as long as I can remember. It’s a song game, so if you know a lot of songs, this is for you.
Continue reading “A Game to Play in the Mean Time” →I didn’t set out to write a punch-in-the-heart post, but this may or may not contain one, so if you’re not feeling up to that kind of emotional voltage, please set this read aside for another time.
Continue reading “On Disordered Living” →From now on, all book-related story posts will be free for the public on Patreon.
I’m making this change because I don’t want access to book universe stories to be contingent on your ability to pay. I sell plenty of books. I give away books to people who come to me and say they can’t afford them. This is the new extension of that practice.
I was talking to someone the other day about how I write, integrate life into writing, and vice versa, and she basically shamed me for not posting writing advice on my blog. I don’t really have any writing advice; what I do have is habits. Here are some of my habits.
Continue reading “Writing Process Notes” →Select works, starting with The Big Book of Post-Collapse Fun, will now be available on itchio. This move comes in response to a conversation about the future of book distribution and encouraging independent options.
To celebrate this new store, The Big Book of Post-Collapse Fun is on sale for just $1.50 US from now until Halloween.
Step One: Get dressed. Be mad at the respectability of your clothing. Get dressed again. Realize you have forgotten how to put the scene uniform together. Give up. Wear jeans and a black shirt. Add a belt for fun. Realize that this was all you ever did when you were young, too.
Continue reading “Going To A Punk Show In Your Thirties: A Guide” →I recently started a Twitter thread that took off and makes a great resource for writers, so I wanted to share it here. Read the replies! Save a cardboard character from their fate!
Continue reading “Take A Quirk, Leave A Quirk” →Seanan McGuire, Cat Valente, and a number of other authors I respect immensely were talking today about using Patreon to fund some of the things that keep authors alive and working, like health insurance and a cushion in case of expensive disaster. They make a lot of sense. So I’ve started a Patreon. Patrons will get access to exclusive content, and it can also be used to ‘hire’ me as an editor.
Become a Patron Here.
Common advice tells you to write every day.
I never got the hang of it.
Continue reading “Every Day” →
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