2012, it looms, Squiders.  Soon people will be after you for your new year resolutions, and perhaps you are thinking about changing up some of your writing goals or trying out some new habits. It’s always tempting to start out the new year with high hopes.  Perhaps 2012 will be the year you lose 50 [...]

I hope your weekend treated you well, that you ate too much and spent too much time with those that you love, and that you got at least one thing that made your day. My husband got me a Wacom tablet which I hope means more landsquid here on the blog.  There is a bit [...]

Instead of our normal Friday subgenre study, I thought we’d take a look at Christmas stories and debate their genre.  Christmas stories tend to involve angels, ghosts, flying reindeer, elves, and an immortal who has the power to visit every household in the world in a very short time frame.  (Though, admittedly, if you take [...]

Well, my husband has driven into work like a crazy person (we’ve got about a foot of snow and it’s still coming down) and as we get closer and closer to Christmas, I find it harder and harder to get up the motivation to do anything that doesn’t involve cocoa and Christmas carols.  (I wish [...]

Procrastination is generally bad, yes, but sometimes you can’t write for whatever reason.  You don’t have a large enough block of time, you’re waiting on feedback or something from someone else, you’re in need of inspiration, etc. Here’s some things you can do that are useful for your writing projects so you can feel minorly [...]