Queer writer of speculative and YA fiction
I met Canadian author Dianna Gunn via BlueSky, where she runs a community called #WeeknightWriters (which you can support on Ko-fi as well) that creates accessible events for fiction writers. She’s also a murderer for hire! Sort of. You can commission her to kill you in print, writing stories where characters die in highly creative …
I saw The Empire Strikes Back when I was ten years old. We were traveling across the country, from Arizona to the East Coast, on our way to our new home in Maryland. We went first to Florida, where my aunt lived, and from there we went to Maine to visit literally every other relative …
Now that LGBTQ+ Pride month is over, we’re in July, which I like to call LGBTQ+ Rage month. And we have a lot to be furious about. I won’t go into chapter and verse about all of the ways society has tried to marginalize us, dismiss us, and make it generally more dangerous for us …
Continue reading "I finished the first draft of my novel. So why am I so angry?"
I tend to seek out a lot of advice about the writing process from other writers, which explains why I subscribe to a lot of writers’ email newsletters. I’m a huge process nerd. I'm always interested in hearing how people get their writing done: where, when, which tools they use, what they do when they …
Continue reading "Why do we say “we” or “you” when we mean “I”?"
I feel like every December I ask myself, "Where did the year go?" So I won't do that this time. Instead, I'm trying to take stock of everything I managed to get done during our latest turn around the sun and think of everything I didn't get to as opportunities for the future. Is it …
Continue reading "Work in progress: The Ghost in You and a queer holiday romcom"
Let it be known that I hate the sound of my own voice. I think we’re all inclined to cringe when we hear ourselves speak, though, aren’t we? I wonder if people who have fantastic voices, like Patrick Stewart or Angela Bassett, feel this way too, or do they think, “Dang, I sound good”? All …
I don’t know where this month went. I think I said something similar about last month, which, granted, was a short month, so it was bound to go by quickly. March always feels a little bit extra considering it has 31 days, and yet here I am at the very last day and just now …
Continue reading "Happy sort-of belated birthday to The Unwanted"
And here we are, at the finish line. To recap: This month I’m taking part in #WriterInMotion, where I write a 1,000-word story and document my revision process. Last week, I posted my third draft, which was revised based on the insight and input from critique partners K. J. Harrowick and Ari Augustine. This week, …
Continue reading "Writer in Motion, Week 4: Exile (second critique group feedback)"
The story thus far about the story thus far: This month I’m taking part in #WriterInMotion, where I write a 1,000-word story and document my revision process. Last week, I posted my second draft, and this week, I got feedback! Some extremely helpful observations came from critique partners K. J. Harrowick and Ari Augustine. They …
Continue reading "Writer in Motion, Week 3: Exile (critique partners feedback)"
Happy New Year! I hope you’ve all recovered from your hangovers, but if you haven’t, I’ll type quietly. I hope 2020 is off to a good start for you because, let’s face it, 2019 kind of sucked, didn’t it? The world is on fire (literally), people in power are evil (literally), and it feels as …
Continue reading "Being resolute in 2020, or “Not one more end-of-year list.”"