Erin Morgenstern wrote a blog post the other day on how her writing isn’t just influenced by other writing, but by a varied array of sources. This really hit home with me because for a long time, I felt a little weird that my poetry and prose wasn’t entirely influenced by other poetry and prose. [...]
There’s that ancient writing advice, “Write what you know.” I’ve always taken that to mean you should write about the things in your life, the things that have happened to you, the things you’re familiar with. As someone who’s always primarily written imaginative, fantastic fiction and surreal poetry, that advice never seemed particularly useful to [...]
If you haven’t watched Amanda Fucking Palmer‘s TED talk, watch it right the hell now: OK? Good. Now. I have a whole lot of thoughts about this, not all of them potentially coherent, but I’ll try and be as sensical (you know, the opposite of nonsensical) as I can be. I love Amanda’s talk, I [...]
When I’m bored, I often start thinking of really horrible titles for novels. Titles like… The Bird That Pooped on the Universe Pwned by the Dragon King The Funkiest Knight Slow Fizz Djinni Oh Shit! Zombies! But nothing I come up with compares with the best/worst romance novel title EVER. Oh well.
I’m rather fond of the phrase “sharing is caring,” and not just because it rhymes. I’ve recently realized that sharing isn’t just caring for me, it’s an essential part of who I am. When I get excited about things, I want to share them with other people. I figure it’s an extrovert thing. It’s not [...]
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