Tonight I was thinking of an experience of mine in my early twenties. As I was thinking about it, I suddenly had an intense need to fictionalise it and I could have gone two ways. It could have been a literary fiction piece but then again, I’ve never been able to write a literary fiction … Continue reading How Do You Like Your Science Fiction?
Like the rest of Team MoonJoy, the past ten or so days have been about the fear and joy (and anxiety!) that came with the Artemis II mission. As a Gen-X individual we will always (those of us who paid attention) have generational trauma because of Challenger. And yes, as a teenager in the science … Continue reading Hope is not just a Four Letter Word
I talk a lot about beat sheets and charts; those things we do to augment the writing process. Some of these methods help, but some of these things are very effective for procrastination! Although I advocate for using whatever writing tools serve any author well, I’m also very self-aware that some of my better received … Continue reading Making Art out of Beautiful Messes
Rather cheeky of me to start this post with a line from one of my favourite poems by W.B. Yeats but it fits, and is what has been in my head all evening. Anyone who knows me in my decades of being online would know that every now and then I go “off grid”. I’ve … Continue reading “I Went Out To The Hazel Wood, Because A Fire Was In My Head”
I spend a lot of time storyboarding, plotting and making notes about the endings of my stories. One of the reasons why Rosemirror is taking so long is because my roadmap towards its ending does not feel sufficiently justified or as is said in writing workshop parlance, “earned”. But at the end of the day, … Continue reading On the Subjectivity of “Sticking the Landing”