What if her girlfriend is actually her mother?
Writing fiction requires decisions among infinite options. If any given character is replaceable by any other character, or even by wind-up automata, golems, and holograms, what is to be done?
Goblins don’t buy groceries
When you cut a deal to get out of goblin jail, sometimes you end up on a secret pumpkin-snatching mission for the manipulative goblin wizard who busted you out. And it can an awkward situation …
The Quantum Nature of Blogging, Part I
I set out to troubleshoot my perfectionist blogging process and instead discovered the quantum nature of writing. While I enjoy blogging, I have difficulty posting often. My problem is that blogging is something of a …
Brainstorming Story Conflict
In my last post, I went over some of the issues with trying to plot an entire novel in an hour, when you don’t actually need to. That’s kind of a niche problem to face, …
Random Rapid Plotting
Why would I until the end of National Novel Writing Month to share a plotting exercise with you? Mostly because things happened, and I didn’t get around to it earlier. But also because there’s room …
Pumpkin Goblins–Coming Fall 2015
There’s been a glaring omission on my part. Though, it’s not so much glaring as it is a one thousand dollar fireworks display that some guy sets off in his yard at midnight. The omission …
Why Tarot Cards are Awesome
For someone who’s decidedly not into New Age* things, or into spending money on anything, ever, I own a lot of freakin’ tarot cards. Three-hundred and twelve, to be exact. Four decks. Why do I …
Halloween Profanity–For Children!
What if you’re writing a book for children, but you want a character to swear profusely? In my upcoming middle grade chapter book, Pumpkin Goblins, I have a goblin character fond of “swearing.” Like so: …
The Storytime Blog Hop
In a little over a month, on August 26th, the Storytime Blog Hop is coming. What manner of Internet nonsense is a blog hop? I can hear you ask. Because I’m in your thoughts, thanks …
It’s not Halloween yet, but here’s a story
It’s about six months until Halloween. Since I’m not really a glass half-full kind of person, I can’t help but notice that they are some of the absolute worst months to be standing between me …
NaNoWriMo Retrospective
This November had so many issues that if it were a person, it would be waist-deep in therapy, hopped up on dubious psych meds, and answering a lot of kind-yet-probing questions from well-meaning-yet-irritating family and …
Dungeons & Dragons & Depression
Excluding my flower inspiration message, it’s been three weeks since my last post. One might think that I haven’t had anything to say, that nothing noteworthy has happened in my life or crossed my attention …