“Science fiction is simply a way to practice the future together. I suspect that is what many of you are up to, practicing futures together, practicing justice together, living into new stories. It is our right and responsibility to create a new world.” — Adrienne Maree Brown The quote above is from Emergent Strategy, a… [Read More]
How to get a story published (true story)
Last week, I received the best email about how to get a story published (a true story) from one of the writers in our community, Steve Forman. I forwarded it to the rest of our team right away. His story is so good, and his story about how the story became a story made us… [Read More]
Does life feel too full for writing right now?
I’m going to keep this short, because I have a feeling you’re already taxed. You haven’t had a moment to yourself in weeks, and you don’t feel quite right. You’ve even turned off social media, because it was eating your personality. You’re not even reading most of your emails anymore. No time. The next eight… [Read More]
One book you should read right now.
I just finished reading Love and Ruin, by Paula McLain. McLain is the author of The Paris Wife — you might have read that one, about Hemingway’s first wife. (It’s a great book, too.) Love and Ruin is about his third wife, the writer and journalist Martha (Marty) Gellhorn. The story is in Marty’s POV,… [Read More]
15 things I noticed on the train.
Small clusters of purple phlox. A crow perched on top of the telephone wires. Altocumulus clouds, dark grey in the centre, bright white around the edges. A steel bridge, a church steeple, and a man in an orange jacket standing in a parking lot. A yard full of white plastic water cisterns. Train tracks diverging… [Read More]
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