I love deadlines. I like the wooshing sound they make as they fly by. — Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series Happy December everybody! Yes, this post was meant to go out last week, before we left November, but sadly my household contracted the plague or some such nonsense and…
There’s so much writing I could have done and so many ideas that I had and so many things I wanted to work on that I didn’t. I like too much having things in my head rather than doing the work. — Sheila Heti, author, Motherhood and How Should a Person Be? Sorry I’m a bit late…
Everything I love is problematic, … no media is perfect. … So what can we do? Love the things we love, but acknowledge room for improvement. — Delilah S. Dawson, Everything I Love is Problematic In November 2015, I read an amazing article by Delilah S. Dawson published on one of my favorite sites, The Mary Sue,…
Cheerio everyone! I started my vacation last week, travelling around the United Kingdom with my husband and some friends on a wonderful Trafalgar tour, so I’ve been really short on writing time, sorry for the late post! But as the coach takes us up through the Yorkshire moors on our way to Glasgow this morning, I’m…
The notion of a ‘gay literature’ is a product of precisely these discourses of power. It was invented to cement the idea that real literature is straight. In this scenario, gay literature is a niche product that only those directly affected need to bother about. – Robert Gillett, co-editor of Queer in Europe: Contemporary Case Studies…
You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can’t edit a blank page. — Jodi Picoult It’s almost the end of May already! And I still haven’t gotten very far with this year’s resolution to work more on my novel… But I do have a plan, and…
We’re moving deeper into the April AtoZ Challenge 2018, where we’ve discovered this little gem called Jungle Fire by U.K. professional artist Katy Grierson, posting as kovah. Because of the brightness by its head, I almost couldn’t make out the rest of this beautiful dragon at first — but look closely to see it, and read Katy’s amazing…
Okay, this was supposed to be the first of my “one dragon, then back to work!” posts, and I’ve already discovered a problem with my plan — how do I choose just ONE dragon to share when these artists are so talented? So I’m changing things up already, and it’ll be “one (or two!) dragon(s), and…
You will never ‘find‘ time for anything. If you want time, you must make it. — Charles Bruxton, Notes of Thought I can’t believe I’ve been writing this blog for over two years now, and I really can’t believe that when I started, I was posting almost every single day! My posts were super short in the…
I have awesome news about a behind-the-scenes tweak I’ve made to my site this week, but first, check out this really cool design called Ink Dragon by Colombian professional artist Alnavasord, who I originally found on the deviantart account Design-By-Humans. The official Design by Humans site revealed more of Alnavasord’s work, and you can purchase this first design…
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