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In high school I joked that I related to writing projects the way other people related to romantic love: “Oh! Oh! This is the one!” I would say. And then, a week or a month later, “Eh, I am bored and disillusioned, and I can’t go on this way. Bye.” I started many projects then […]
Today I thought I’d share the results of a writing exercise I did with one of my writing groups. I forget the exact prompt, but it was something about having to disarm a bomb while tied up. In my group, we spend 30-40 minutes on these and share the results with each other. It’s interesting […]
People love children’s and young adult fantasy author Diana Wynne Jones because her novels are funny, action-packed, full of twists and turns, clever, and skillful in their manipulation of and commentary on fantastic and mythological tropes. Some that I only care about only a little (I don’t require lots of action, and clever or “clever” reworkings […]
I’ve sent out my first round of query letters for Pet and received my first two (gracious, thoughtfully written) form rejections. If my experience is at all the norm, there are quite a few of those waiting for me ;). Otherwise? I’m editing the adult romance novella I mentioned earlier and still hoping to submit it by […]
Here is not the country of truth. She wanders unknown amongst men. God has covered her with a veil, which leaves her unrecognised by those who do not hear her voice. ~Blaise Pascal, mathematician, philosopher, and physicist Saying there’s no truth in the first place makes no sense to me, but this means that I’m […]
Exciting stuff this year. I didn’t set the following two goals formally as New Year’s resolutions, but they might well be. They are: 1. Query agents about Pet, my YA LGBTQ PNR in verse ( I couldn’t resist the alphabet soup; more comprehensibly, my young adult lesbianish paranormal romance in verse). 2. Revise and submit a novella to […]
I really like Nietzsche, and this essay–rich, dense, exciting, and considered seminal by major postmodern critics–is one of the reasons for that. I suspect I am butchering it, and I know I’m not addressing it in its totality. BUT. I chose to write about it because it articulates the aspect of the theory called postmodern […]
This is the twelfth and final installment of Duessa, a 12,000-word allegory. The rest can be found here. Thank you for reading and happy New Year! This woman on the other side of the glass must be the one he had thought she was, the one whose body she had taken. Thinking of him, she thought, What […]
This is the eleventh installment of Duessa, a 12,000-word allegory (of sorts). I’m posting a new installment on each of the twelve days of Christmas, wrapping up on January 5th. See the previous ten here. After shedding a few tears, she set herself moving toward the brighter lights Now she found two people in the mirrors, alternating. […]
This is the tenth installment of Duessa, a 12,000-word allegory (of sorts). I’m posting a new installment on each of the twelve days of Christmas, wrapping up on January 5th. See the previous nine here. It was a different bed, her twin-size from high school. The ratty comforter she’d sewn herself from the most beautiful cloth she’d […]
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