Woo, squiders! This is quite a book. Bit rough to read in places. And apparently there is a sequel, Children of God, which starts up almost immediately after the first book ends. I’m always a bit amused with science fiction books
Writing Around Life: School (Part-time College)
Happy Thursday, squiders! Today we’re going to look at techniques for students attending college part-time. As a caveat, most students attending part-time are doing so because they have some other responsibility (children, work, aiding aging parents, etc.) so one of
Writing Around Life: School (High School)
Good evening, squiders! We’re moving on to more specific tips this week. We’re doing school first, because almost everyone goes to school (one would hope, anyway). I’ve got this section divided into three subsections: high school, part-time college, and full-time
Writing Around Life: General Tips (Part 2)
Moving along! (I finally finally finished my draft, squiders! I’m in the process of sending it out to betas. And then it’s on to something else, which in this case, shall be the return of the space dinosaur book. I’m
Which Book Shall We Read?
Well, squiders, I was looking at my bookshelves for books to read for the next readalong, and I realized something: I am terrible at picking out books. Sure, we did Harry Potter and A Wrinkle in Time and Howl’s Moving
Writing Around Life: General Tips (Part 1)
First of all, Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day! Go give your local indie bookstore some love! They’re all that’s standing between us and Amazon’s total domination of everything. <_< That said, let’s jump into our writing around life tips! Today
Writing Around Life Organization
Hello, squiders! We’re going to start in on the writing around life nonfiction series. This is going to be a bit different from previous nonfiction topics since there’s going to be some overlap between sections. We’re going to organize the
Pondering Pen Names
Ah, the pseudonym. Something to hide behind, for whatever reason. Authors as varying as Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, and C.S. Lewis have used them over the years. As I ponder trying out new genres, I find myself returning to this
All and Sundry (and Your Favorite Poll)
Hi Squiders! We’ve almost run out of March already. How does that always seem to happen? (We got a ton of snow yesterday, and our power’s been flickering on and off all day, which is very annoying, especially when one
Bogged Down in Books
I worked the Scholastic Book Fair at my older mobile one’s school this morning, which was actually really fun! And I only walked out with one book and it wasn’t even one for me, which is kind of a victory.