Author’s Notes

Today is the day after a monumental event. A process-changing thing happened to me yesterday, and I couldn’t be happier to share the news of my new addition with the world. I’ve [...]

I've been mired in place for the past two months. Just choked with the inability to look at the draft, much less work on it. Thinking about writing was giving me fits of anxiety, and not writing [...]

The decision to overhaul the website happened suddenly a couple of weeks back. At the time, I hadn’t underestimated the amount of work the transfer would take: I knew that the site would be [...]

Thirty-thousand words deep into NaNoReWriMo 2016 and I've learned that my hack and slash editing style requires three times the time it takes than actually going HAM on the keyboard to produce a [...]

The start of October signals an open gateway for anything that creeps, crawls, and splatters. It’s the season to be a horror fan, and especially around here, we have a lot catering to the [...]

To begin with, you should be able to write anywhere. You don't need a sacred space to make the work happen. You don't need any special hoodoo or a shaman to come and bless the chair you put your [...]

I'm resurfacing from a fortnight without internet, and with this revived connection to the digital world, the very first thing I'm doing is announcing that I'm promptly going offline again for [...]

Do you remember the last time you committed to something because you had to? You weren't offered an alternative, it was this option or you're screwed? I hear this a lot from writer friends: [...]

This is my party and I'll be morbid if I want to. We've talked about this before: this persistent rushing towards oblivion and the abject determination to accomplish something that we deem of [...]

Back on the topic of teenage dialogue while writing for teenagers: a post I wrote about swearing in teen fiction got quoted at Dead Darlings. The post in particular is Curses! Using Profanity in [...]