A Short History of My Short Stories
I started my writing career by writing novels. In sixth grade, I started a rather weird grand novel that didn’t go very far; in seventh...
Primary or Secondary: Should Worlds Collide?
So now you’ve decided to write a fantasy novel. Great! You can exercise your imagination in the fantasy genre in a way that doesn’t...
Balancing the Elements: The Circus of Juggling Proportions
One of the hardest things for me as an author is to keep elements of story balanced: Plot, characterization, setting, description,...
Published Too Soon: Alas Poor Yorrick
There’s a complicated issue in the writing world, and that’s when someone is ready to publish. In this day of easy self-publishing,...
Babbling About Blurbs
I have said this before, but I enter a lot of Goodreads giveaways (because, free books!). I’m also constantly trying to find new books,...
Update and Teaser
I know I haven’t been a consistent blogger in the past few months. In my own defense, I have an excuse: after a long time hunting, I...
Echoes of Myth in Storytelling
Growing up on fairy tales, legends and myth first taught me what sorts of story elements make a deep connection to the unconscious mind. ...
World Building: Child's Play
I was about twelve when my dad told me that I reminded him of the Brontë sisters. Having never come across their works, I was curious. ...
Mental Illness: The Boogeyman in My Writing
I am mentally ill. I’m very up-front with this. I am an abuse survivor and inherited mental illness from both sides of my family, and...
How to Bake a Plot
Anyone who has read the early drafts of my stories knows that plot is my weakest skill as a writer. I tend to start writing with a...
