2016: a year in… well, it was a year

This is the time around about when people are making their year-end posts, wrapping up what they’ve done and written… Read more 2016: a year in… well, it was a year

and now my tale is told

So Sword and Star – the final book in the Root Code trilogy (by the way, it honestly continues to… Read more and now my tale is told

(Please note: there’s some mildly NSFW stuff in here. Not images, just words.) I think should is a bad word.… Read more tell me, what else should I have done?

This business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to… Read more when it all breaks down and we’re runaways

I wrote this the other day for my Tumblr but I feel like it fits here as well. So here… Read more Writing: practice resurrection

Any unfortunate person who follows me on Tumblr has noticed that it’s lately become the repository for all my feelings… Read more A light in dark places when all other lights go out

I posted a couple of quotes on writing the other day, to accompany a Difficult Writing Time. I think everyone… Read more One Foot After the Other: writing when things are generally shitty

It’s always sort of an interesting experience when I’m reading something on my Kindle app and I run into one… Read more The community of the highlight

You don’t want to be judged? You won’t be. You don’t think you’re strong enough? You are. You’re afraid. Don’t… Read more On #Wiscon and trauma and recognizing it as such

Two things happened in the last month. The first is that I came out to my students – gender-wise, and… Read more All that we see or seem