Category: writing
-
Ah, distraction. How I adore you.
What do you use to distract yourself? Really distract yourself, I mean, from the stuff you don’t want to think about or do?
-
Warning: a downer
The things we don’t think about…there’s often a reason we don’t want to think about them. If I let myself think about these things I’d simply stop moving.
-
You might want to try fiction…
Who is Alex Minty? What made her become the woman she is, who takes no prisoners and never let’s anyone else have an inch of control? I loved finding out and I wanted to share it with you.
-
What you need to know
Writing Down the Bones, Card 50: “You need to know this.” What you need to know is that I don’t mean to be this way. I don’t mean to be needy, over the top, or abrupt. I don’t mean to say the wrong things. I don’t mean to be over…
-
What am I looking for?
This is an experiment I’m hoping to keep going for some time. Author E.V. Bancroft gifted me a deck of cards from the Writing Down the Bones series, and I’ve been eager to see how it works. I’m a big believer in timed free writing because it forces you to…
-
It’s the end
And I admit, I’m largely unprepared, as I’ve done so little to get to this point. The year has flashed past, a comet highlighting my general inability to get stories out. Or is it that I’m simply feeling that way because…well, yeah. Because I didn’t get any stories out. I…
-
I adore adventure
And I love a challenge. Or I used to, anyway. Steampunk is a very cool, very interesting genre, and I thought I’d challenge myself to write something I’ve never done before. Cue head banging against the desk, months of procrastination, and research rabbit holes about things like Victorian underwear and…
-
Brussel sprouts in chocolate sauce
I wrote the below for an article recently, but the site passed on it, so I thought I’d share it with you here. What is love? Love is messy. It’s complicated. It can make you feel like you can take the world by the scruff of its neck and make…
Brey Willows 