• Update: It Should be Called “Nada Wrimo”

    I have never completed a Nanowrimo project, despite my attempts at trying. (To be fair, I have never completed a long form original work ever. Also, I can’t do deadlines because Anxiety.) And yet, the idea of “write an entire novel in a month” calls to me. “Yes, it would be great if I could…

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  • Book Review: Translation State by Ann Leckie

    Reading Translation State was a trip, and this review is going to be pretty spoilery! I am a big fan of the Imperial Radch Trilogy, and Translator Dlique from those books was one of my favorite characters. (She was so interesting and also so very very alien.) It is hard not be curious about the…

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  • Apparently Alarming Special Interests

    I’m trying to keep this lighthearted here. However, quite a few of these special interests got me in trouble with my conservative Protestant Christian family. Some of them because they were weird, and some of them because I was apparently the wrong gender to have the interest and some of them because my family thought…

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  • Book Review: Fledgling by Octavia Butler

    Fledgling is another one of those books that took me a while to get around to reading. I was not entirely sure what to think when I first heard that Octavia Butler was going to write a vampire novel. I do not really like vampire novels all that much, even though I always seem to…

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  • Writing and the Internal Logic of a Story

    This is a rewrite of a previous post I lost the original file for! It was about the way that a writer’s worldbuilding interrelates with their worldview, and what I think of as the basic building blocks of creating a setting. (Note: The former  is not, “X is bad and if you write X you…

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