This weekend is the Nebulas conference and I was a member of a panel on “Meeting Young Readers Where They Are,” which was about how authors can create relationships with libraries and schools so they can bring their kidlit, middle grade and YA work to more audiences. I wasn’t there as a writer, though IContinue reading “Had A Great Time “Paneling””
Category Archives: Being a Writer
The First Amoeba of Trolling
This morning I woke up to an interest dilemma. I’m getting spam-subscribed to a podcast that has a confirm email which contains some slurs. The confirms are sent to an email that I only use for writing-related work. It’s not the same email that is on this site. :tilts head, quirks ears: It’s simultaneously puzzlingContinue reading “The First Amoeba of Trolling”
Welcome 2023
And with the turning, Janus looks from past to future…. :side-eyes my goal list: (are we ready for this? I’m not sure we’re ready for this.) AHEM It’s the first day of the new Gregorian new year :hooray: and I don’t have resolutions so much as plans. And some of these plans are, well, aContinue reading “Welcome 2023”
I’d Be Annoyed but I’m Actually Grateful for the Timing
A few days after I posted about Instagram, SFWA (the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers’ Association) announced that they were doing a promo program on the platform. Yeah, that timing isn’t suspicious at all. (I know, I know, nothing whatsoever to do with me. Still very interesting timing.) Part of me was all “it doesn’tContinue reading “I’d Be Annoyed but I’m Actually Grateful for the Timing”
Time Goes Way Too Fast
Sometimes I feel like I just started this blog. Then I look back and am like OMG HOW HAS 5 YEARS PASSED ALREADY Same thing happens with my friends’ kids. Like OMG COLLEGE WHAT and YOU WERE JUST A BABY WHY ARE YOU TAKING THE BUS ON YOUR OWN and other reactions of that nature.Continue reading “Time Goes Way Too Fast”
Janus Gift #2 – Reclaim Journaling
One of the disadvantages of the digital world is that the content normally consigned to diaries and journals is now something that can be put out into the world for consumption by anyone. As someone who wrote diaries and journals avidly before my age hit double digits, I started putting my thoughts out in publicContinue reading “Janus Gift #2 – Reclaim Journaling”
I’ve Been Writing More Often…
…but for some reason I can’t do it here. So this is a note to say that I’ve been developing a “writing every day” habit, which even at my most intense during college I never achieved. Keeping all fingers and paws crossed I can keep it going!
What’s Your Playlist?
Sometimes, I feel like an idiot. Like today. Like I didn’t realize until This Very Night that everything creative I have written that I liked included some kind of music going on in the background (or frontground). I remember my first playlist. (No, really! I do!) Winamp was my favorite music thing in the worldContinue reading “What’s Your Playlist?”
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