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  • Coffee
    Do you have any idea how difficult it was to get a stock photo of black coffee instead of some sort of latte? I had to scroll, my loves. It might as well have been on the second page of Google results. Now, when Past Michelle prompted Present Michelle to write about coffee, I doContinue reading “Coffee”
  • Been Busy
    And I will remain busy, for which I apologize. I’ve reached the point in the draft of book 4 of Stone & Sky where all the pieces are in place and the only delay is my time and my typing speed. As such, I have buckled down on that draft until it is complete. Soon,Continue reading “Been Busy”
  • On the Docket
    I’m sure there’s folks who do just fine with one project at a time, and I love that for them. And for you, if you’re one of those folks. But for myself, in writing as with my knitting, I like to refer to myself as monogamous+. It’s the subscription version, you see. I will haveContinue reading “On the Docket”
  • The Reclamation of Meaning
    I’ve always been a linguistic descriptivist, which is to say, I was entirely unbothered when literally gained a new definition. The fact that said new definition is opposite to its existing definition did not bother me, I was delighted with the addition of a new contranym to my lexicon. The sturm and drang of complaintsContinue reading “The Reclamation of Meaning”
  • Building Characters
    See, I have already lied to you, but you knew that because you’re very astute. I don’t build characters, I discover them. I have been playing D&D and TTRPGs for my entire life. I’m not exaggerating; my parents met at a D&D game, I don’t remember not having dice in the house, and I mispronouncedContinue reading “Building Characters”
  • Under Advisement
    Since I’ve joined the public writing space, I’ve had a huge variety of writing related content forced onto my feed by Big Algorithm. I am not on social media very much; my tolerance for the shenanigans is low, and my bandwidth is also low, so I just don’t spend much time there. As a consequence,Continue reading “Under Advisement”
  • Waiting
    I think that writing a book might be the slowest way to go about getting a job. The economic feasibility of said job aside (we all know that authors don’t really write because it’s fun or lucrative), it is an astoundingly slow process. Now, I write fairly quickly* and I’m still knocking out a fullContinue reading “Waiting”
  • Audiobooks and Reading
    When I was maybe ten years old, my siblings and I went on a road trip. Naturally, we were not driving, the oldest of us being eleven. To pass the time, my dad put in an audiobook of The White Dragon by Anne McCaffrey. It was on cassette tapes* from a squeaky plastic clamshell fromContinue reading “Audiobooks and Reading”
  • Peanuts for Birds
    There’s a lot of great things about living in Washington that I will never quite get over. For one, the water is actually blue here. If that sentence made you scoff, then you didn’t grow up next to a river called Big Muddy, and I love that for you. Every summer I go to IndianapolisContinue reading “Peanuts for Birds”
  • The Great ReWrite
    As promised, let’s talk about the book, huh? So when I wrote the first book, the one I am now querying, I hadn’t really planned anything for it. I had an idea, I wrote it, and that was that. Except that there were just a few too many loose threads for me, you know? IContinue reading “The Great ReWrite”
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