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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 […]

WriteHive Online Confererence 2024: Worldbuilding in Real World Settings

| November 4, 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! “Worldbuilding in Real World Settings” was an interesting discussion on what parts of worldbuilding you still need to […]

Flights of Foundry 2024 Quick Recap, Day 3

| October 28, 2024

Catherine Tavares posted her recap of what she attended at Flights of Foundry immediately after the convention. I took a little longer to collect some of my thoughts and notes, but I hope you enjoy! (You can find my previous recaps here.) I’m going to have to do mine in chunks by day, so this post just covers […]

Flights of Foundry 2024 Quick Recap, Day 2 (second half)

| October 21, 2024

Catherine Tavares posted her recap of what she attended at Flights of Foundry immediately after the convention. I took a little longer to collect some of my thoughts and notes, but I hope you enjoy! (You can find my previous recaps here.) I’m going to have to do mine in chunks by day, so this […]

Flights of Foundry 2024 Quick Recap, Day 2 (first half)

| October 14, 2024

Catherine Tavares posted her recap of what she attended at Flights of Foundry immediately after the convention. I took a little longer to collect some of my thoughts and notes, but I hope you enjoy! (You can find my day 1 recap here.) I’m going to have to do mine in chunks by day, so […]

Flights of Foundry 2024 Quick Recap, Day 1

| October 7, 2024

Catherine Tavares posted her recap of what she attended at Flights of Foundry immediately after the convention. I took a little longer to collect some of my thoughts and notes, but I hope you enjoy! I’m going to have to do mine in chunks by day, so this post just covers the Friday (day 1) […]

WriteHive Online Conference 2024: Marginalized Genders in Fiction

| September 30, 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! “Marginalized Genders in Fiction” was a panel where the panelists talked about the history of trans and non-binary […]

An (Un)helpful Guide to Writing a Novel Might Be Helpful?

| September 24, 2024

It’s the time of the year when authors, aspiring and otherwise, think about writing a novel. Or, at least, it has been in the past. However, the usual impetus for this, NaNoWriMo, has exploded in a most spectacular fashion (see this blog post by my friend Raven Oak for details of the FIRST part of […]

WriteHive Online Conference 2024: Creating Compelling Characters

| September 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! Author Brieanna Wilkoff gave a presentation titled “Creating Compelling Characters” that broke down a system for how she […]