My writing cycle goes like this: I write a project; I decide to write another project at the same time; this goes well for about a month, then I get distracted by the two projects and whittle it down to one while the other goes on hold; I finish the project and get back to […]
Writer's Life
My Life as a Plant Witch
Also known as: The Care and Keeping of Bonsai Trees (While true, mostly I just forgot what I was going to write about for today’s post, so you get some soliloquising on my plants instead. Such is life these days.) When I moved from my last place of residence, I learned that moving companies will […]
Comedy in the Midst of Chaos
Ah, moving. Just when I think I’m done with it, there comes another task to put on the to-do list. Organise the garage? Put it on the list. Get rid of all the poison-ivy infested hedges around the back patio? Put it on the list, then order some serious plant killer. Figure out what to […]
The Craft of Writing
I have been writing for a long time. Admittedly, when I first started at six, my skills were…terrible. Later, around nine or ten, my stories were basically me taking all my favourite elements of Tolkien and throwing them together. Great fun to write, but not original at all. Over time, though, I began to focus […]
I’m Moving!
Yes, you read that title correctly! I have been planning a move for…well, a long time now. It was put off thanks to covid, but the time has finally come to transport myself from a land of trees and rain to a land of trees and rain. Different trees. Probably the same amount of rain. […]
Audiobooks Away!
(I tried to find a clever title, and this is what my brain came up with. Sigh.) As you may know, I first published The One Who Could Not Fly, the first book in the Wing Cycle trilogy at the end of March of last year. It astonishes me to think that only a year […]
Fantasy Nostalgia
This last week has been rather crazy. I’ve had so many things going on that have absolutely nothing to do with writing, and as a result, my brain shorted out. I’ve stepped back on some of the writing projects that I should probably not have been working on for at least six months anyways and […]
The Two Worlds in Which I Write
I am going to share with you a little secret about my writing. I write books in two worlds: Earth (only with magic and such) and Taloria. All my books take place in one or the other, and they’re interconnected in ways that go beyond sharing some characters. Let’s start with Taloria. All of the […]
Something In a Name
I think perhaps the hardest part of writing stories for me is coming up with a character name. I usually have a pretty good idea of where the story is going, despite being a “pantser”, so that’s less of an issue. And getting words down on the page is more a matter of whether my […]
Puzzling
I was trying to come up with a topic for this week’s blog that wasn’t to do with the new cat (no matter how adorable she is) or to do with discussions of a book series that won’t be out until summer. It is a very interesting book series, and I am having an absolute […]
Tiny thief
A goodly portion of my social media posts for the last week have had to do with Minnie, the cat I mentioned in last week’s blog post who I adopted from outside. She is doing very well, now, having been spayed and vaccinated and finally given full access to the house. I think she is […]
Newest Member of the Writing Team
So…I adopted a cat. Another cat, I should say, since my usual writing buddy, the Queen of the Universe, is still happily sleeping away in her cat tree. The new member of the family is Minnie (as in The Moocher), a stray cat that is part of the neighbourhood cats that I have been feeding […]