Professional Writer & Editor
Life update: I turned 33! My birthday was lovely and filled with cake, books, and seafood. August is normally my short story challenge month. If you're new around here or need a refresher, my August Short Story Challenge is when I task myself with writing a new short story a day for the whole month … Continue reading August Author Updates
I've got a new way for readers to connect with me and take a peak inside my writing practice. It's an author newsletter called, Writing Skins, and it's a look back at through my writing journals over the past few years, dating back to before I even sold my first story.
The way authors create and think is a technique in itself. When I explain a story idea's life and creation to another writer and vice versa, there's always small amazement how the connections happen.
Links to stories, notes on writing noms, and what I've been working on over the past couple of months.
I love writing. It's my lifeblood or my heart pulse; it's the thing that keeps me going. Noodling over a writing problem or coming up with a new story feels like living to me. But when I'm doing it in a community of other writers, it feels like magic.
I'll be doing an AMA over on the sub r/PubTips this Friday, July 7, 2023, from 4 to 6pm PDT/7 to 9pm EDT! While my other AMA was all about fantasy writing, editing, and reading, this one is going to be all about short story writing, editing, selling, submitting, and all things short stories.
Ignyte nom, short story writing and editing, reading, and more!
Excited to announce I'll be doing an AMA over on r/Fantasy this Sunday. I'll be answering all things related to my fantasy writing, editing, and reviewing—including book and story recommendations!
I'm at this really interesting point in my career, where I don't want to miss anything, in a sense. I'm doing what I have always wanted to do: be a professionally published working writer who tells a good story well. Like I look back over the places I've published and worked with over the past few years and am pretty flabbergasted.
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.
Aigner Loren Wilson 