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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 […]

The Evolving Short Story Market from 2024 Nebulas Conference

| September 16, 2024

In addition to catching up on WriteHive panels, I’m also working through my list of panels at the 2024 Nebulas Conference that I didn’t get to watch at the time they were broadcast online. (If you have a 2024 Nebulas membership, you can watch the saved videos and more; if you don’t have one, you […]

Completing The Wayward Writer!

| September 9, 2024

Throughout 2023 and most of 2024, I worked through the entirety of Ariel Gore’s The Wayward Writer. I took a few weeks off here and there for vacations, but I basically spent 78 weeks working through one exercise a week. I talked a little bit about hitting the halfway point here. Overall, I found the entire […]

WriteHive Online Conference 2024: Fear Factors: A Horror Genre Master Class

| September 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’ve caught up on a number of genre-specific panels, including Fear Factor: A Horror Genre Master Class. Horror […]

WriteHive Online Conference 2024: How to Write When You Don’t Want To (The Afronauts)

| August 26, 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! The Afronauts presented How to Write When You Don’t Want To, which was a great place to start […]

Writing Tools: Reckless Deck: Psyche

| August 18, 2024

I’ve accumulated a large collection of card-based writing tools, each of which is useful to different parts of my writing process. So I’ve decided to do a series of posts about the various decks I own and how I use them in my writing. It’s been a while since I’ve gotten a new set of […]