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 Memoir Reading List and Book Club
Tag: writing tips
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.
r/Fantasy AMA 6/25 @ 8 AM PST
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!
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.
How I Write: Using Scene Cards to Tell a Story
On index cards sometimes just on a dry erase board or poster board, writers build a story just by its scenes. Instead of writing it out word by word, they draw or sketch it with images or words. Sometimes it'll just be something as simple as 'The Bad Man Dies' and some sketch of how the scene should look or take place.
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.
Aigner Loren Wilson 