I’m pulling on a thread of a story that could be resolved two different ways. Harsh or comforting. Hard truths or held punches. Grief or healing. Reflection or escape. Both paths can work. Both have power. My stories are often quite chatty, telling me what they want to be, what they’re meant to be. But […]
My short story “Heart’s Desire” is now online at Read Me A Story, Ink., a reading resource site for kids, parents, and teachers. Take a look–or a listen! “PERFUME SCENTED the air as my stepsisters left the house, trading names of princes they longed to dance with at the ball. My stepmother, Vivienne, crossed the room
“I could never explain how a story could be worth more than a dance with a prince” Read More »
I’ll be back at TusCon Science Fiction Convention for the first time in three years this Saturday, November 12. If you’re in Tucson, come by and say hi–either at my panel and signing, or at any time during the day!Weird Things We Thought As Kids– With Janni Lee Simner, Catherine Wells, Eric T. Knight, Jay
So there I was, scrolling through social media, when an ad popped up on my feed. “Write blog posts 10X faster with robots!” it said. O-kay, I thought. Sure. What could possibly go wrong? A bit of googling later, I’d fallen down the rabbit hole of AI content generation—sites that promise to take the pesky
“A couple weeks ago, I (Bruce, 52m) went for a drive with my cousin (Jennifer, 37f). I admit it, things got a little out of control — a giant spaceship cut us off on a winding mountain road, hurtling us down a hillside toward our certain death, you know how it goes. Long story short,
AITA For Infecting My Cousin with Uncontrollable Hulk Powers? Read More »
Or what I’ve been doing the past ten years Recently, when I told an extended family member I had work to do, he snapped back at me, “What work? When was the last time you wrote a book — ten years ago?” His response says more about him than me, of course. I’ve gotten “come on, you’re
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Writing is a strange business sometimes. We think we’re writing for readers, and then it turns out we’re writing for ourselves. We think we’re writing for our present selves, and then it turns out we’re writing for the children-we-were or the adults-we-will be.Or both. Today I came upon ”Seal Story,” a selkie short I wrote
“Once long ago, there was a seal who loved the sea…” Read More »
Happy holidays! “Invasive Species,” a short story set in my Bones of Faerie universe, is now online. It’s also FREE this month wherever ebooks are sold. You can download a copy now from Amazon Apple Barnes and Noble Kobo or Smashwords. The Bones of Faerie trilogy is set in the aftermath of a catastrophic war between the human and faerie realms, one that has left
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I’m a messy writer. I jump in, with little more than a character or an idea, a few sentences or a scrap of voice, and I just start writing. I don’t know where the story is going. I don’t know where it will end. Or maybe I think I know these things now, but I’ll
Doing the “you” things—honoring our (highly individual) writing processes Read More »
Life isn’t a story. This is, for the most part, a good thing. Stories need conflict. Stories need drama. Stories need, more often than not, for the worst possible thing to happen at the worst possible time. No one wants to live in a well-written story. The pandemic isn’t a story. But if it were,
Life isn’t a story. That’s probably a good thing. Read More »