October was a month of writing, editing, and rounding out projects. Read on to learn more about the short stories I'm working on, books I've read, and more.
October Author Updates
Tag: creative writing
My MFA Journey: Deciding on a Grad School
When I first started writing fiction and decided that I'd be a writer as my career, I knew that at some point along the journey I'd get my MFA.
August Author Updates
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
Writing Skins
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.
Author Memoir Reading List and Book Club
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.
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.
South Sound Speculative Fiction Writing Group
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.
Reading List for Studying Setting and Description
I searched the stacks and asked friends what their recommendations were for writers studying mesmerizing settings and descriptive writing around emotions, food, gore, and/or nature. Here's what they said.
r/PubTips AMA 7/7 @ 4 PM PDT
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.
Author Life Updates: April and May 2023
Ignyte nom, short story writing and editing, reading, and more!
Aigner Loren Wilson 