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: writing career
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.
Writing Life Updates: May 2022
All about what I've been working on over the past month, including my recent sales to the Washington Post, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and so much more.
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