Happy Friday, squiders. How’s May treating you? I’m slowly going out of my mind. Reception for Deep and Blue has been pretty decent. On a sadder note, Turtleduck Press, which I’ve been a part of for many, many years (we
Help, I’m Becoming Set in My Ways
Happy Friday, squiders! How has your week been? Mine’s been all right. My spouse is finally coming home from his business trip (he’s been on another continent for weeks) so I’m hoping some of the lingering exhaustion I’ve been feeling
Revisiting Writing and Networking
Good afternoon, squiders! Sorry for abandoning you all week! I wish I had a good excuse but I don’t. I did finish the final edit for Deep and Blue today. It has a publication date now (May 1) and is
Spring Interlude
Howdy howdy, squiders! How’s it going? We’re on spring break this week so all our routines are out of sync, joy of joys. (I did teach the small, mobile ones how to play ERS, Oh Hell, and Hearts, though. Essential
Enter Act Three
Well, squiders, I started this blog post three days ago, and then we got two feet of snow, which apparently not only shut down school and work and all that jazz, but also my brain and my productivity. Digging ourselves
Pondering the Writers’ Conference
Howdy, squiders. I didn’t forget you this week. I was recently discussing my lack of in-person writing groups, and how I’d like to do some networking, and it was suggested I go to our local writers’ conference to see who
WriYe and Hacks
HaHA we have broken the romance cycle! For this month’s WriYe blog prompt, we have: List of “writing hacks” you swear by (and some you wish would just go away). Now, squiders, for the life of me, I can’t think
Why Must We Ruin Everything with Drama?
Good afternoon, squiders! First things first, SkillShare finally got back to me about my class (a MONTH and two tickets after I emailed them that I had fixed it, so not wild about their support) and it is fixed and
Game On
Good evening, squiders! If you recall, I added in a video game goal for the year, which is supposed to be about five hours a week, but life is uneven and nothing can be relied upon, so how it’s really
Hey, Did You Know if you Try to Do Everything at Once, it’s Overwhelming?
Good afternoon, squiders! As you know, the winter critique marathon is going on right now at one of my online writing communities. Week 5 just started so we’ve done four weeks and I’ve had five chapters critiqued in that time
