I have been attending so many virtual SFF conventions lately (right now I'm listening to a panel about contemporary Gothic fiction), and tomorrow I'll be sharing a reading with @LydaMorehouse (Does tagging even work on Dreamwidth? I'm out of practice. Let's find out.) and Pat Harrigan! And I just got my market list update out.

From the newsletter...
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Aaaand, the personal bit from my markets newsletter.

Thoughts in Passing

I've been wrangling my two young kids through distance-learning summer school, and it has left me exhausted and drained and uncreative at the end of the school day.

You know what helps?

A nap.

No, seriously. If you are exhausted and having trouble focusing, take a nap. ( Read more... )

Here be the personal bits from my May writing newsletter. The whole thing is here: http://www.aswiebe.com/writing/archive2020.html#052420

Thoughts in Passing
Do what you can. That's my big thought for the month. Do what you can. If you can only do a tiny bit of writing, do that tiny bit. Congratulations, you did something!

If being even that ( Read more... )

Thoughts in Passing
(Do you have a writing question? Send it to me, either by replying to this email or by using the comment form on my website, and it may get answered in the next newsletter.)

Do you have so much stuff to do that just trying to decide where to start is exhausting? Gamify it! I recently discovered this little app called Tiny ( Read more... )

This year, I did NaNoWriMo for the first time, since I thought I would theoretically have the time to finish it this year. And I did!

...Sort of. I got my 50,000-word hot mess written, and I learned a lot from the experience, but I let a whole lot of other things slide. That included getting the writing markets newsletter out on schedule.

What ( Read more... )

One of my tiniest stories is now out in Changelings & Fairy Rings: An Anthology of Nature Spirits & Elemental Creatures, a collection of 40 tiny stories and poems. This is only available to purchase through Lulu.com.


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Thoughts in Passing

Summer is a busy time for me both personally and professionally, with both kids home from school, assorted SF&F conventions, and family gatherings. Once again, I vastly overestimated my ability to get writing done in the midst of all this. For some reason, I always imagine family vacations as a writing retreat where I'll ( Read more... )

I'm in the home stretch of the contemporary fantasy thriller that I've been working on for mumble-mumble-don't-ask-please. All the pieces are coming together, the writing is flowing easily because of all the momentum pushing it forward, and I'm really pleased with how it's turning out. Don't get too excited, though. Final stretch for me means ( Read more... )

What I've been up to lately, writing-wise:
I'm focusing on consistency--writing every day. I find that when I tell myself I only need to write three sentences, but I need to write those first (before doing whatever else it is I want or need to do on the computer), it is much easier for me to get past that initial resistance-to-writing and I ( Read more... )

It's still only January, but so much has kicked into gear for this year already! Some I can announce, some I can't yet.

Several people have subscribed recently, and it is the beginning of the year, so I thought I'd give you a refresher on where else you can find me. I have not one, not two, but three email newsletters!

• Aswiebe's Market List - This ( Read more... )