Insomnia's not so bad. No, really! It has its limited, mind-numbing, exhausting uses. I mean, I finally got on Tik-Tok and followed peop...

This week I can talk about anything I want to, so buckle up. This could get weird. Also personal. There might be swearing. You have been war...

I took a creative writing class once, several years after I graduated college and had been slogging it in the workforce and dreaming of writ...

Following the accumulated wisdom of How to Be a Writer in Public, I have developed all the things a writer is supposed to have: web site, at...

In 1997 I attended LoneStarCon2 (which was the nickname-type thing of the WorldCon that was held in San Antonio that year). Not sure what t...

This week, we're talking about time management in general and specifically how much time world-building gets in the schedule versus actu...

The main thing I’m planning to do in 2019 is ignore the noise. Used to, in the dark ages before DVR and streaming, when we watched live TV, ...

Happy happy, everybody! My family contains many Catholic people plus some Jewish, Baptist, pagan, and agnostic folk as well, so winter holid...

Mostly what I'm looking forward to in 2019 is it not being 2018 anymore. This was a blegh year for me all around, and I am ready to move...

2018 was a weird year for me personally, and my reading habits reflect that. For the first time in a long time, I read books I just plain wa...

The way I see it, if character arc is something you're shooting for, you have to strip your character down and leave them excruciatingly...

Eep. Just had a bout of mild panic because it's twenty-seven days to Christmas and I couldn't find the books. The important books. T...

Dude! There is a lot of brand-new (very probably) excellent stuff out in the land of speculative fiction. But because I'm spending most ...

“Even when you’re not writing, you’re writing.” That’s our topic this week. Thing is, I’m not always writing. But I am always writer-...

Once upon an autumn, I was a lone weirdo in a gothic Texas family. Like, I read a lot of Stephen King and J.R.R. Tolkien, and everybody else...

When I was chiefly a reader and not interested in selling my scribbles, I’d buy a book because it looked fun or was recommended to me, and...

Folk who know me best also know I used to be a copy editor at a book publisher. I mean, for like a decade. And then I managed copy editors. ...

Dear Me on April 3, 2017, Tomorrow your first book will be available for sale. Go you, kiddo. You'll get flowers from Christa, and Slo...

I always wanted to write a book. Yet I didn't succeed in doing so until I was almost 40. Which was totally coincidence and not at all ...

Hoh boy. This week on SFF Seven we're talking about how to stay motivated when life "spirals downward" (<-- poetic way of p...