So Livejournal created this thing to mark the end of 2017. A year in review sort of thing



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I am going to be reading a short story of mine (well, a portion of it) at Tallgrass Writers Guild's Open Mic this Sunday, December 17 ( Read more... )

I originally wrote this story back in February 2012, but, to be honest, I started having doubts about how it actually turned out. The plot hit the nerve in the way I wasn’t quite expecting, and I think too much of it spilled on the page. At the same time, the story was kind of necessary in terms of Urbis Arcana canon, so I wound up putting in the “ ( Read more... )

When tweelore asked me to translate one of her fanfics into Russian, I didn't hesitate. It gave me a chance to do something I don't really get a chance to do all that often - translate something into my native language ( Read more... )

I’ve been following me on Twitter or Facebook, you’d know that there is a story I’ve been working on since October of last year. It’s coming slowly, in fits in starts - though I have to say that I made more progress on it in the past two months then in the eight months that preceded it.

It’s completely separate from the Urbis Arcana stories. I’m ( Read more... )

Corrina corrinalaw Lawson, author and content director of GeekMom recently wrote a post that's... hard to sum up in the single sentence. The basic idea is that she tried to look at why female characters receive backlash from fandom, often from people who genuinely want to see more female characters in fiction. Lawson argues that it has to do with how female ( Read more... )

In the beginning of the year, I had some pretty ambitious hopes/plans about how much writing I was going to do. And... It's not that I didn't do any writing at all. It's just that I never finished any of it ( Read more... )

I've been reading The World of Ice and Fire, the companion book to George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire - the fantasy series that was adopted into Game of Thrones. The book is a fascinating work in its own right - it deals with the history and geography of ASOIF universe from an in-universe perspective. It's meant to be a history book an ( Read more... )

When I started submitting "Library Fantasy," my most recently completed short story, I knew that rejections were inevitable. Hell, I knew I would be lucky if anyone accepted it.

But that didn't mean the rejections didn't hurt.

The first rejection wasn't for "Library Fantasy" at all. It was for my spur-of-the-moment submission of " How Vasilisa the ( Read more... )

I haven't been writing as much as I would like to in the last few months. Granted, there are perfectly good reasons for this. Between chemo robbing me of half of my weekends and more work than ever, I haven't had that much time to write. Plus, I've been posting on this LJ more, and those posts can take time, too. It's a miracle I managed to get one ( Read more... )