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Interview with Nathan Toronto

| January 27, 2025

Today, I’m chatting with Nathan Toronto, military sci-fi aficionado with an interest in alternate history and publisher of Bullet Points! DV: Tell us a little about yourself and your writing. NT: I am a military science fiction addict. It can be a means for creating a more peaceful, prosperous world. In my professional life I […]

WriteHive Online Conference 2024: Tackling Procrastination and Creating a Routine

| January 13, 2025

Now that the 2024 WriteHive Online Conference panels are available on their YouTube channel, I’m catching up on the ones I missed during the conference itself and sharing some of the things I gleaned from them here! Amusingly enough, I procrastinated quite a bit on watching “Tackling Procrastination and Creating a Routine.” But once I […]

WriteHive Online Conference 2024: Tarot for Writers

| January 6, 2025

Now that the 2024 WriteHive Online Conference panels are available on their YouTube channel, I’m catching up on the ones I missed during the conference itself and sharing some of the things I gleaned from them here! I enjoyed Kris Waldherr’s presentation on “Tarot for Writers,” which was a neat look at the ways in […]

Completing Millions of Suns

| December 30, 2024

Over the past several months, I’ve been working my way through Millions of Suns: On Writing and Life by Sharon Fagan McDermott and M. C. Benner Dixon. While it’s very different from the last craft book that I worked through, it includes writing exercises alongside the twelve chapters, making it a great read for authors who […]

WriteHive Online Conference 2024: Marketing Tactics for the Self-Published Author

| December 23, 2024

Now that the 2024 WriteHive Online Conference panels are available on their YouTube channel, I’m catching up on the ones I missed during the conference itself and sharing some of the things I gleaned from them here! “Marketing Tactics for the Self-Published Author” was a fantastic panel filled with great information for self-published authors who […]

WriteHive Online Conference 2024: Breaking the Rules–The Path to Authentic Writing

| December 9, 2024

Now that the 2024 WriteHive Online Conference panels are available on their YouTube channel, I’m catching up on the ones I missed during the conference itself and sharing some of the things I gleaned from them here! Lisa Wood’s presentation on “Breaking the Rules–The Path to Authentic Writing” covered a number of the so-called “rules” […]

WriteHive Online Conference 2024: Writing Multiple Genres and Author Brand

| December 2, 2024

Now that the 2024 WriteHive Online Conference panels are available on their YouTube channel, I’m catching up on the ones I missed during the conference itself and sharing some of the things I gleaned from them here! I was particularly interested in “Writing Multiple Genres and Author Brand” because I write in a bunch of […]

WriteHive Online Conference 2024: Tell Me a Story: Exploring Narrative Styles

| November 25, 2024

Now that the 2024 WriteHive Online Conference panels are available on their YouTube channel, I’m catching up on the ones I missed during the conference itself and sharing some of the things I gleaned from them here! “Tell Me a Story: Exploring Narrative Styles” was a great panel on writing stories in ways that are […]

WriteHive Online Conference 2024: How to Create Superheroes and Villains to Match

| November 18, 2024

Now that the 2024 WriteHive Online Conference panels are available on their YouTube channel, I’m catching up on the ones I missed during the conference itself and sharing some of the things I gleaned from them here! “How to Create Superheroes and Villains to Match” was high on my list of interests, since I write […]

WriteHive Online Conference 2024: Writing Authentic Intergenerational Stories

| November 11, 2024

Now that the 2024 WriteHive Online Conference panels are available on their YouTube channel, I’m catching up on the ones I missed during the conference itself and sharing some of the things I gleaned from them here! “Writing Authentic Intergenerational Stories” was one of the panels I was particularly interested in because I write a […]