What I see when I edit. If you follow me on Twitter you’ve probably noticed that every night (er, my time) I’ve been re-watching Sailor Moon Super and live-commentating every episode I feel like watching. Well, imagine my ~surprise~ when last night we got an episode where the victim was an author and the monster-of-the-day…
“I’m sorry, but how did you not know they were gay? You’re the author, silly. I read one scene between them and thought ‘damn, they got boyfriend drama’.” – A Real Quote From a Real Reader Weeeellllll. You know how it is. Even when you’re the author you still don’t know everything about everyone, or…
My lofty aspirations. My dear, dear writing friends. We are strange. I know, I know. I’ll wait over here while I let that sink into your head and you come to accept the fact that you are, in fact, a writer, and that you are, in fact, weird as shit. We writers have quirks. Weird…
I know I’m super late to this club, but that’s what happens when you live in a foreign country that doesn’t give a flying seagull about this sort of thing (granted, Japan has more pressing local matters to put in their news at the moment) and are pretty much internet-less when you finally get the…
It’s in my dreaaaams. I’ve been having one of those months, dear readers. You know, the kind of month where nothing is good enough and you’re convinced that you’re going to fail at everything and OH MY GOD WHY DO YOU EVEN TRY?? JEEZ. Yeah, that’s me. Editing. And reading. Doing both at the same…
hypocrite, much? (WARNING: There’s a lot of fucking swearing in this post.) In real, everyday life…I swear. I swear a lot. On my OKCupid (don’t judge) profile I say that I don’t smoke, but “fuck is my nicotine”. I can clearly the remember the day, a few weeks after my grandmother died when I was…
You are nothing without the bind. “I’ll read your books once they’re published!” If you’re a writer you’ve probably heard this before…unless you’re not interested in people reading your works, then maybe you haven’t. But if you have then you’re probably also familiar with the connotations a phrase like this carries. On the surface it’s…
After recently declaring that I intended on finishing the manuscript for CROSS//Rebirth by November so I could purely work on the next installment and get its first 50k words in for NaNoWriMo…I’m kinda failing already. Well, not totally. So far for October I’ve written 3322 words, but that still leaves me behind and blahblahblah. At…
It looked like this. There’s something to be said about irony. I mean, besides the fact that it’s my favorite thing ever and you would never guess I’m prone to being anemic. But irony is only really cool when it happens to other people. When it happens to you? Not so much. Here’s some irony…
17. Favorite protagonist and why! Sooooo how is this not like the “favorite character!” question? Meh, I have so many protagonists, it’s hard to pick a favorite. Especially since some of my faves cross over into antagonist category more than once – actually, if I think about it, most of my characters cross between “good”…