Three weeks ago, I got downsized out of my day job. Sorrows. Prayers. Six weeks of severance pay before panic sets in. Since then, I’ve started taking more seriously the idea of self-publishing a series of novellas that I’ve been working on for the better part of the last 18+ months. I’ve taken a classContinue reading “Self Publishing Diaries: Getting Started”
Tag Archives: Writing Process
Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria and Being an Artist
So writers block, ain’t that a bitch? And don’t I REALLY wish that’s all that was affecting me. I spent 10 weeks in intensive outpatient therapy this year, thanks to my reason for staying in the corporate hellscape that is my job (we love insurance and a livable wage yo). While it was great forContinue reading “Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria and Being an Artist”
Class of 2025
In 2023, I took the leap and started a master’s program for creative writing, with the intention to get a Master of Fine Arts directly afterwards. As I’m coming to the close of my second semester, I wanted to take a pause and reflect on how it’s going. Wait, MA and MFA? Yes, you readContinue reading “Class of 2025”
Flash Fiction February 2024 – With Prompt List
What the Heck is Flash Fiction February? Every year I make the same new year’s resolution: Make writing a habit. Or just write more. Or share more. Or some chimera of all three. And every year I mean well and then thanks to a lifetime of ADHD, the real world being a mess, and personalContinue reading “Flash Fiction February 2024 – With Prompt List”
Salvaging the Dead Draft
Last year, I had a story I was working on for a gift for my sister based of a prompt she had given me that she liked the idea of. I spent months working on this thing, and hated every single draft and version I came up with. But I kept trying. By the fourthContinue reading “Salvaging the Dead Draft”
Macabress Manuscripts 