Writing in Orbit

Do you ever feel like your writing is orbiting something? Like there's this gravitational pull that keeps you sliding closer and closer to some unknown mass every year. Hell if I know what it is. That focal point feels a lot like personal preference, or maybe old trauma, and either way, it's bound to be …

I promise I’ll talk about writing in this one

There's a quote on the tag of my teabag that says "Walk beautifully, talk beautifully, live beautifully." It's been a busy, stressful semester so far, and though finals are creeping up and my final semester of university looms ever nearer, it's also been quite rewarding. I've been able to take a philosophy class, which has …

An Extended Metaphor on Undiagnosed ADHD

My brain is like this: Imagine you have a computer. On the computer, you have somewhere between five and ten windows open at any time. Each window has anywhere between 17 and 58 tabs. Off to a hellish start, right? You can imagine already that things are going to get kind of slow in there, …

Wrong Bodied, Iron Wrought, Belly-up Fish

“Come dance.” She stares at the outstretched hand. Elegant, if a strong, clawed hand broader than her face can be called such a thing. Veins worm their way through the back, and what she can see of the underside is calloused, smeared in dirt, and startlingly pink. Eliza takes a step back. The elf’s smile …

Writing Theory 101: As You Are

When we talk about writing, we sometimes have the tendency to skip over one of the most vital and basic parts of writing: the, uh, actual writing. If writing theory is all the thinking, planning, analysis, philosophizing, and debate that surrounds writing, then at some point, inevitably, we are going to have to talk about …

Let’s Talk Genre

Do anyone else's kneecaps get cold? Odd way to start a discussion on genre, maybe, but I think it's a fair enough question. I am forever teeth-chatteringly, shiveringly, soles-of-my-feet-turning-blue-edly, freezing. Okay, maybe not always. We've been getting those late summer temperatures that usually only last for a week at most for about the last two …

What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Writing?

I've started four or five posts in the last few months, all of which trailed into the weeds and never came back out for various reasons. But I've been thinking, in the spaces between writing attempts. Just thinking. What are we talking about when we talk about writing? I mean sure, we get the usual …

Hedonism and a Warm Blanket

I should be doing more in the morning. My mind isn't buzzing full, I haven't gotten hungry, the dog isn't whining to go out for a walk yet, and there's plenty of things to do. Dishes, finances, prepping for the next semester of university (yes, already), clothes to mend, laundry to fold, appointments to set …

A Critique of K.M. Weiland’s Secrets of Story Structure Series

I'll be outright: I'm not a fan of it. Frequenters of this blog shouldn't be surprised, since I tout no rules writing enough to sound like a broken record, but as I've started diving deeper into why no rules this and subjectivity that, I figured it would be worth it to go in depth and …

Happy First International Asexuality Day! 🖤🤍💜

Little different than the normal pace of things, but happy first ever International Asexuality Day! Aces like myself lack sexual attraction, and since that's a statement riddled with misunderstanding, I thought I'd take a moment to talk real quick about what attraction is and how it can show up differently for different people. This is …