Oh, friends. You should chastise me. You really should. I was on top of things for a while there, getting back into a good routine of writing my thousand-word minimum every day, and then… I fell off the wagon. There’s something I need to explain to you about writing, and Read more…
I’m so darn lazy that I’m pulling this out of an email I wrote rather than taking the time to write an original blog post. It’s about Orange is the New Black. The good news is that, hey, at least it’s short: I read the book a while back, and for the Read more…
Hi guys. I got to reading some stuff on Facebook recently that got me to thinking about how much suffering there can be during the holidays, and how this suffering disproportionately affects LGBTQ people. We have lots of reasons for that, like dealing with the incessant undercurrents of homophobia, families who Read more…
I’m going to start this post with another copy & paste from author Chuck Wendig, whose blog I love oh-so-very-much. (It might be the only blog I actually read on a regular basis.) Except this little excerpt isn’t by Chuck, it’s by his friend, author Andrea Phillips. Here’s the excerpt: Read more…
Hello, folks. This is the first bit of a recent post by Chuck Wendig, an author and a screenwriter whose blog I follow (and you should, too). I’m reposting a chunk of one of his posts here because it’s both funny and true and because you should read it. You Read more…
I live only a few miles from Comet Ping Pong, the DC pizza place where a man with an assault rifle walked in to “self-investigate” a fake story about a child sex trafficking operation taking place in the restaurant’s “underground tunnels.” I’ve never read the original fake news stories purporting Read more…
I wouldn’t really say that I get writer’s block. I fully believe in Stephen King’s quote about how “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” I also believe that the best cure for not knowing what to write is to Read more…
I admit it. I’ve been on a real tear lately. Here’s what I’ve done in the past 30 days: I published To Have Loved & Lost I joined about fifty million Facebook lesbian book / author groups I started a mailing list I’ve written 22,000 words of a follow-up novel Read more…
I read this article online today that kicked off a storm of raging guilt. To summarize: So basically, you are taking these characters and putting them into a new world that the writer created, with new circumstances and settings. Now this is where it gets tricky. How alternate can a universe Read more…
(Or: I’m kind of tired of traditional coming out storylines) It’s Thanksgiving weekend, y’all. You know what that means? TV and movies. Lots and lots and lots of them. Along with some novel reading and some novel writing. I just watched what I would characterize as a good, maybe even Read more…