She sighed, looking at the form on the app. Wanting to feel fresh air once again. It was time to face the gauntlet for permission. Reason for request: 10 minutes at the beach. … the computer takes some time to connect …. “Request denied” flashes up on the screen. … the […]
Writing
The First Time
It’s officially new book day!! The First Time: A memoir about job hunting for the first time as an openly disabled person. This book is being distributed to all available stores, however, I prefer direct sales as it puts more money into my pocket. Direct sales Bookstores (will become available over time, […]
Timing is a hell of a thing
I recently made an off-hand post about wanting to get some book editing done, but weather got in my way and made me flare. Sucks, but that’s what happens with unpredictable chronic illnesses. What I was working on that day was a book about what it was like to job hunt as a completely […]
Authors, Be Kinder
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 […]
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 […]