Lightspeed JULY 2024 (ISSUE 170) is the last issue that I'll have a book review in for the foreseeable future.
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Tag: career writer
Author Life Updates: June and July 2023
Links to stories, notes on writing noms, and what I've been working on over the past couple of months.
Author Life Updates: February and March 2023
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.
Author Life Updates: January 2023
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.
Writing Life Updates: End of 2022
Monthly check-ins are easy to do, but year-end wrap-ups are hard. I write and publish a lot in various markets, so it's not as though I don't have links to share. It's just that when I look back over my year, the amount of stories I've sold and how much I've published is only a small part of my writing career. More happens behind the scenes than I think I will ever fully share.
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.
Writing Life Updates: July 2022
I've been spending my time doing a lot of career planning and looking to the future. The question on my mind is: this time next year, where do I want to be? The answers I've been chewing on are the steps and moves I need to make to get to that dream writer-self by July 2023. I do this type of thinking/planning every year and whether or not I get the thing I want, I always end up in a better place than where I started with opportunities crawling out of the woodwork. But how do I build on that to make sure my career and craft are constantly growing?
How I Write: Spreadsheeting a Novel
Learn how to analyze and troubleshoot your novels by organizing them into a spreadsheet to create a cohesive narrative.
November Newsletter
For over a year now, I've been working full-time as a writer and editor, involved in projects that I love. This newsletter will help people stay up to date on all my work.
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