July books: 3/6 (Native Star, The Owls’ House, and A Posse of Princesses) Hey, squiders, sorry! Didn’t mean to disappear for two weeks! I wish I could say that I have gotten SO much done in that time, but I
More Broken Mirrors, and Other Musings
Howdy, squiders, did you miss me? I wasn’t gone, I’ve just been sitting on this post for two days. Oh, yeah. June books: 6/9 (The Poison Season and The Productivity Project) Can we read three books in the next three
Delving In
Evening, squiders. Last week, with your lovely help (it’s amazing what I can work through as I write things out here on the blog), I decided to leave off the World’s Edge revision until the critique marathon is over and
And Now for Something Completely Different
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
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
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
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
Getting Distracted
Hello, squiders! As you can see, I have survived the children. (I called one poor child the wrong name like three times, and this will haunt me forever.) I think it went decently! I do like talking about outlining, and
