Hey ho, squiders. I did sit down and do some thinking, and it doesn’t make sense to continue with the World’s Edge revision in its current state. So I’m going to treat the critique marathon (and my in-person critique group)
Flaily Flaily Flail
June Books: Still 4/9 (oh no) Hey ho, squiders, how are you? It is a million degrees here and only getting hotter, god I hate summer and also climate change. Still not making much progress on my revision, and feeling
Morning Pages Twelve Days In (and More Floundering)
June books: 4/9 (The Ministry of Time and The Curious Kitten at the Chibineko Kitchen) It’s Friday, squiders. Unlike many people, I am not a Yay Weekend person; weekends tend to be stuffed full of activities and not terribly relaxing,
Floundering
Books Read for June: 2/9 (The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024 and Brooke Shields is Not Allowed to Get Old) (Still in the middle of 3 books, and doing that thing where I’m reading a little bit of
Morning Pages Four Days In (Also Submission is a Drag and Comparison is the Theft of Joy)
Afternoon, squiders. I have written in all sorts of new places this week. (Well, done writing-adjacent things. Submitted queries. Wrote this and Tuesday’s blog posts. Did my critiques for the marathon. No actual writing.) Right now I am at a
Writing Retreat Aftermath, Revision Thoughts, and Morning Pages
Happy Tuesday, squiders! I can’t believe it’s already June. Holy crapola. (Also, I did my book tracker for the month this morning, and I need to read nine books this month to be on track, so that’s a problem.) (I
Writing Retreat Ahoy
(Nautical joke, to go with World’s Edge’s setting.) Well, squiders, I’m off to my writing retreat tomorrow. I am mostly excited–I got a ton done last year, and it was relaxing, and I did yoga and walked the labyrinth and
The Same But Different
Hi squiders! Happy Friday! School is out, so I hope everyone is up for two months of chaos. My youngest asked if she could give her teacher (the one who had me in for the outlining talk) a copy of
Let’s Do This (Around the Madness)
Hi-ho, squiders, hope you’re doing well! I finally finished my readthrough today, and it has worked–I am ready and willing to dive into the madness that is revision (though I will admit, since I feel like the draft is in
Productive Procrastination
Happy Friday, squiders. Hope you’ve had a good week! So, I did end up writing that short story for the submission call, and I submitted it before the deadline (though I have not gotten a confirmation, and they say to
