I’ve been seeing a lot of gatekeeping how authors show up (and how they consider others) and I think I need to write about it. I’m seeing a lot of shitty, dehumanising takes. Not caring about content warnings, telling people they can’t ever post anything “negative” ever, not to talk about media (eg other […]
Writing
The future of my fiction
Over the past five or so years a pattern has emerged with how I want to work on my fiction. For now the specific will stay with me, because it took a long time to realise and it’s too raw to me to share. Raw isn’t’ inherently bad, FYI. It’s just raw. The […]
The periphery of being a writer is more profitable than being a writer
There you go, I said it. Gasp. The periphery of being a writer is more profitable than being a writer. The thing that annoyed me the most about this was some social media advertisement for a SPECIALIST writers notebook for $60 or something (naturally, discounted from $90). I don’t even know what […]
I’m planning to do the wrong thing
On threads the other day an author shared a really helpful series of posts about iterating as an author to move yourself forward in a creative and commercial way. I’m usually not a fan of generic advice, because, it’s generic, but this was thought out and clearly came from experience. It’s worth reading the posts […]
No more NaNo for me
It’s probably an odd thing to write a blog post about. But the reason I’m doing this is because I’ve written blog posts in the past about NaNoWriMo and seeing as I no longer feel like it’s ethical to support the organisation, it feels weird to just leave the posts up with no notes. Leaving […]
Good Creativity Guides
Good Creativity Guides Are there any books on creativity that are a) non dictatorial FOLLOW MY LEAD AND DO ALL MY STEPS OR ELSE and b) non ableist I CAN’T WORK HARD SO WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE ME? A) is kind of interesting. In online business circles people are finally starting to wake […]
Murders of Sand
This came to me via terrible YouTube captioning. It was supposed to say “emergency decent” but yeah… too bad if you have anything other than a perfect American accent when it comes to audio auto captions. I just really liked it. It would make a good book title. I’m not sure what the book would […]
Who Is A Writer?
On my now defunct Patreon, years ago I wrote a post about who GETS to be seen as a writer. Frankly, at the time, I was cranky. Some people were collaborating on a project and I didn’t view one of them as a writer. Yeah, that was a dick move of me, because who […]
Why Is It Important?
I saw this on social media – posted by a writing tool. It’s important to find ways to make your writing workflow more efficient. You want to ensure that you’re spending the majority of your time being productive. As I said, this was posted by a writing tool. Their motive is clear – […]
June Creative Contemplations
Right now I find it both helpful and unhelpful to look back over what I can and can’t do. Over the past 6 weeks I’ve had some kind of post viral relapse and my fatigue is becoming unworkable. Project Updates: My Fictional Life With Kids: Last month I finally got it swapped from self […]