Would you believe that it took me until 2021 to try audio books? I was always mildly curious but just… hadn’t…. I had no idea how to start though. I was worried that I wouldn’t like audio books and that it would “ruin” a story for me if it turned out that I didn’t […]
Writing
The Hunger Games
The Hunger Games It must have been 2019. Hunger Games had been on our Netflix queue for a while and one day my husband said he wanted to watch it. I said sure, even though I knew they were books too. I was undecided (still am) on read first vs watch first. […]
Romancing SciFi
Romancing SciFi How do you feel about romance in Science Fiction? I feel like it doesn’t add anything. I compare Alien to the “not a prequel” movie Prometheus and I feel the romance detracts from the story. It changes the reason for the tension, and that is distracting to me. “Individual science […]
Creator Guilt
Creator Guilt In early March I created a new website. Ironically, I did this after backing up and cancelling a heap of half-used websites. Anyway, that’s a thing, but not the guilty part. The new website is a fictional “mom blog” called My Fictional Life With Kids. As new ideas can be, I […]
Patreon Update
You may be aware that I launched a Patreon page earlier this year. After thinking about it for a few months, I’m changing things up a little. I’ve been uncertain how I feel about paywalling my content for a while. I have conflicting thoughts. I don’t believe a creator should have to give everything […]
NaNoWriMo 2021 Week 1
NaNoWriMo 2021 Week 1 How did it go? Well, as of writing this, it’s the morning of the 9th and I’m at 11,121 words. An on-track number by the end of today would be 15,003. I didn’t write at all on the 8th as I was unwell. 3882 words is catch-up-able though. But my spoons […]
October Creative Contemplations
October Creative Contemplations I took the first week of October off work, with no plans. I had a cold the week before so part of the week of leave was resting from being sick, and the other part was whatever I wanted to do on a whim. But also, having had a cold, my […]
NaNoWriMo Prep 2021 Part 4
NaNoWriMo Prep 2021 Part 4 (Read part 1, part 2, and part 3.) One thought that came to me in the bath (because that’s where all ideas spawn?). Remember that NaNoWriMo is not your final book. It is about getting a draft done. This means that you can break rules. Actually, I’ve found […]
Not Every Story Is A Book
Not Every Story Is A Book I gave some advice in a writers Facebook group that I thought could be shared more broadly. Someone was struggling with their story. Don’t we all from time to time? My comment was: Do you have a book in you or do you have a story in […]
About Writing Goals
A friend shared the following as an image on Facebook. I tried to find the original source, but it appears the tumbler account doesn’t exist anymore, but this post was reblogged and screenshotted. The post reads: I saw a post talking about how Terry Pratchett only wrote 400 words a day, how that […]