Entering year five of the blog (!!!) and with a lot of my history as a writer stored here, I'm always wondering how to change or update the blog to meet my life.
Author Life Updates: January 2023
Category: Fiction
Links to October Stories
Curious about where you can find my writing and editing work from October 2022? Check the links below for my work from Fantasy Magazine, Strange Horizons, and more.
How I Write: What I Did to Become a Full-Time Writer
The path I took to become a full-time writer, I don't think, is all that unique. But one of the biggest things that helped me was reading posts like this from authors who were where I wanted to be. I've mentioned it before in tons of my craft articles, but I used other authors' careers as a guide map.
Writing Life Updates: October 2022
Stories, stories, stories, and bread! But mostly story news about my novella, novelette, and short stories.
Links to September’s Stories
Curious about where you can find my writing and editing work from September 2022? Check the links below for my work from The Writer, Strange Horizons, and more.
How I Write: Scheduling My Writing
I write and edit ... a lot. It's my all-time everyday oxygen-blood. It is what fuels me. Yes, it's also my work, but writing is the thing I would do even if my career was in some other industry. Creating stories and thinking about them ARE the things I do instead of most other things. But it's also something that doesn't just happen.
Writing Life Updates: September 2022
So, I thought I ended July with a bang, but August ended up being my best month for short story sales in 2022 so far. In total, I made 3 story sales to top magazines and anthologies in the month. I'm more daring and wild in these newer stories. And I love it.
Links to August’s Stories
Curious about where you can find my writing and editing work from August 2022? Check the links below for my work from Strange Horizons, Tor Nightfire, and more. I also turned 32 this week!
How I Write: A New Story a Day
August is my short story challenge month, where I attempt to write a short story (+1,500-words) every day. I wanted to share how I'm able to write a new story within an hour a majority of days.
Writing Life Updates: August 2022
Ending July with a bang and kicking off August with two more short story sales, novel query and submission news, and starting my August short story challenge.
Aigner Loren Wilson Writer & Editor 