I’ve spent the last few days scouting novel locations and building out the beats for a larger project about the Sibylline. One of the big holes was an ancient, mystical location in Ukraine. Scouting story locations is one of the most fun parts of writing. It inevitably leads me down rabbit hole after rabbit hole…
Put yourself out there. That’s what they tell you. The other morning I flopped down onto the bed, slightly weepy, and declared myself exhausted by the epic level of work I’ve done to get my fiction writing published. I’ve been querying the novel I just finished—Geist—hard for the last six weeks. This is the rejection…
I’m too busy to write. However, I swear I will take my night-sweaty peri-menopausal level of rage out on the next person who tells me, “You just have to commit yourself to write every day.” Stop already, writing gurus. Those of us working our faces off at trying to live our authentic selves through a…
Flower photography is one of those pastimes that I often see as a bit cliché. Spring has sprung. Let’s post all the flower photos. It’s inevitable. However, cliché is so fun sometimes because, well, flowers. They are magic and leave their mark on you. As a child, nothing ever manifested in quite such a glorious…