I recently completed an amazing book - “When the Body says No” - by Dr. Gabor Maté, and while I’ve never felt more called out by a book for how badly I handle my own stress, it made me recognize a few things about early childhood development that likely would affect how my characters react to the world. Which made me want to blog a bit about it. I’m not 100% sure how helpful it will be for writers. But one of the things that always fascinated me is how early childhood events and things that we

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Body language and nonverbal communication play a large role in what we are trying to communicate in person, so it stands to reason that it’s just as important in writing.  One thing that I’ve been hearing from a lot of the writers that I spend time with is that writing non-verbal communication is often difficult, daunting, frustrating, or downright intimidating to do well.  While I think some of it is largely due to overthinking on the part of the author (let’s be real, no one is

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So RoMS has been the head of the Post Apocalyptic Emporium Discord server, and one day randomly offered to go through the first chapter of Speak to polish it. I know it's always a little risky to fix things you've already done, but about 90% of the fixes he gave me were grammatical (which proves that I did not deserve that A I got in grammar in college), but it helps the story flow and have less interruptions where you

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“Maybe I shouldn’t write about maternity wards.”  That was the statement that set off this spiral of thinking.  Out of context, it’s just a single statement, but with context about what was said, by whom, to whom… things get weird.  Which I suppose is fairly normal, but honestly, in the case, context matters. Which is also why I’m not going to give it until later.

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Ho boy! Everfree Northwest was this weekend, and it was one of the best, most emotionally exhausting things that I've done in about a year. The last time being last year when I ran the writing track in 2017. I volunteered as the writing track lead again, and then got to have the fun time of spending most of the weekend moderately stressed out while making sure that nothing in Twilight's Writing Room set on fire. Or stayed on fire too long.

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Is going to the editors! This took way longer than I anticipated, but I am happy that I finally got it done! Sorry for the wait, but so far pre-editing it's 14.5k words so... hopefully it's worth it?

_{Please no ductape}

I AM ACTIVELY WORKING ON 15! I PROMISE!

I just had a very silly idea that was light hearted and shippy, and fit in really well with Hearts and Hooves Day, so I decided to write it. It was kind of fun to write something that wasn't super deep, but still explored some interesting themes.

I just wanted to let folks know I was still working on Speak! This was just something I wrote up in a sugar fuelled fit of insanity on Hearts and Hooves Day!

"December 24th, 1989, 9PM, Eastern Standard Time. From here on in, I shoot without a script. See if anything comes of it, instead of my old shit" - Mark Cohen from Rent

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Ooof. The holidays can be a difficult time for people. I don't know about the rest of you, but sometimes Snowfall Frost's "Say Goodbye to the Holiday" doesn't seem like a horrible idea. At the very least, at least without them on Earth, there's far less world ending consequences (no matter what big businesses may tell you).

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Oh my my gosh. I know that 1900 views may not be all that much in light of big stories out there, but when I started writing this back in January, I was going to be happy with 4. Thank you everyone for reading and enjoying and occasionally threatening to duct tape me to my chair.

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