Carlie (The Blasphemous Wench)
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Category Archives: WRITING
Things I Learned From A Joe Hill Reading
I’m leaving to go to Reno for the weekend, so I’m not writing a lot tonight — per usual, I have procrastinated packing until the very last minute — but I did get the chance to go to a reading … Continue reading
“I Am At Home With the Me. I Am Rooted In The Me Who Is On This Adventure.”
(Sorry. This is not actually a Grosse Point Blank review. Although, clearly, that movie’s awesome.) Here’s the thing: I can actually legitimately say I’m a professional writer. I certainly don’t have many sales — very, very few, in fact — but nevertheless, … Continue reading
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Fog Con 2013
In my ongoing quest to Be A Real Writer Someday*, I attended my first professional writing con last weekend: FOGcon. For those of you who don’t know — and there may be more than a few of you, if you … Continue reading
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Professional Sale!
Today comes with excellent news: I sold my short story, “This Villain You Must Create,” to acclaimed fantasy and science-fiction magazine Lightspeed! I am SO DAMN HAPPY right now. I tried to take a picture of my happy face, just to … Continue reading
The Next Big Thing . . .
So, today you get to hear all about the novel I’ve been working on for about two years now. Why, you ask, am I inviting people to rip off my soon-to-be TOTAL GENIUS, torturing you, doing this instead of working on … Continue reading
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Dragon Con 2012!
So, I’m a nerd. You may not have realized this, if you’ve never read this blog before or if you’re particularly dense, but my nerdiness is something that cannot be denied, nor would I wish to. And, as a nerd, one … Continue reading
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Oh, Mainstream Fiction. Why Have You Forsaken Us?
This isn’t new by any means, but I thought I’d share it anyway. I first saw this letter over a year ago, before I knew who Daniel Abraham was, actually, and it made my little geekwriter heart squee. As someone … Continue reading
Zombies, Star Wars, and Fairy Tales, or How Not All of Us Can Write Proper Poems Like Shakespeare . . .
Question: What is a prose poem? Answer: A poem that is formatted in one or many blocks of text (like prose) instead of broken up in lines and stanzas. Questions: What separates prose poetry from flash fiction? Answer: . . … Continue reading
Clarion West 2012
So, I just got back yesterday from an intensive six-week writing workshop called Clarion West. I never talked much about Clarion West prior to going — I think I was afraid of jinxing it and having my invitation revoked at … Continue reading
