Anything Worth Doing
Advice in the form of pithy little statements is—and has to be—of a general nature, not applicable across the board. I know that logically, but some sayings are so deeply ingrained they might as well be encoded in my DNA.…
Category Update
Attention, priorities, tying off
A while ago I listened to a Dutch mystery podcast called De Brand in het Landhuis, in which the host tries to find out what happened to an eccentric aristocrat who died feet from his front door when his mansion went…
Inspiring mediocrity
In the month of resolving to be, live, and work better, Shady and I decided to give my parents’ long-maligned roomba a chance to prove itself. My dad’s livestream set-up in the dining room was torn down prior to his…
Falling into our verjaardagskalender
The ongoing isolation heightens emotions I'd know how to handle at other times. The whole thing feels like being a teenager again, with that sense that something is fighting to the surface of you and your body isn't big enough to hold it.
Writing Solo
I’ve wanted to do a blogpost about how Ash and I collaborate for ages. HOWEVER, we sent in the latest draft of our book last month, and it’s left us at loose ends. We’ve worked a little on our book…
An update is never late. It arrives exactly when it means to.
Hello friends! Despite the title, this blog post is long overdue. If we’ve caught up recently you already know, but it finally happened: Ash and I found our agent! We’d just begun sending out queries for another project, and all…
Out of Time
A character can leave their home, their loved ones... but they can also leave the time they know, whether they spend years in stasis or walk into a mushroom circle to be transported three-hundred years into the future. That's what I mean by "out of time": a character leaves behind the world they know, and suddenly they're somewhere temporally separated from all the things they care about.
Writing with and without depression
Today my husband told me he was tired of seeing the otter on my front page. Putting aside the fact that people should never be tired of seeing cute otters, he did have a point: this blog has been gathering…
Stuff! Thinnngs
I’ve been meaning to get this blog back up and running for a while now, but going to the Write Stuff event (hosted by the always-wonderful Literary Dundee) was the final push. Here I am again! Since it’s mostly family and…
Fourth manuscript “finished”!
Just a quick update to say I’ve finished the first draft of my fourth manuscript. This one’s a young adult fantasy novel, and it’s been a lot of fun to write. I already know I need to make some pretty big…