It Really is Okay to Suck
I have learned this lesson again and again through my writing career so far, [but there] some nuance here, though, that I didn’t cover before.
More Than a Name
Sometimes a name is just a name, but what if you can make it more than that?
Positive Self-Talk
Today, this blog post resonates with me more than even when I planned to write it. I said this journey was “fraught with failure, rejection, and doubt.” Yup.
Straining Belief
The important part is the limit. With speculative fiction, you have to keep as many aspects, elements, and actions grounded in a sense of reality as possible.
Avoid Shiny Object Syndrome
Shiny Object Syndrome is the condition, the compulsion, to fixate on something other than the project you’re working. As writers, we have to let this happen so that we can generate ideas for our work, especially our current work. Brains aren’t inherently logical, though.