“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 do you start writing?
When you sit down to write, how much time do you give yourself to practice? I mean the off-record stuff: writing exercises and warm ups. Now think of the way dancers or musicians interact with their art. The performance, the finished piece, is the culmination of hours of practice: boring warm ups, weird experiments, and… [Read More]
⚡️Important news about the Story Intensive 2019!⚡️
What a few weeks it’s been. At the Victoria Festival of Authors, I tried reading some new scenes from Radiant Shimmering Light, just to see how they’d land for the audience. It was… ILLUMINATING. Talking with my readers has been fascinating; I never know what’s coming next. I thought that people would be asking me… [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]
New Zealand! Australia! + a new reading list.
Hello hello hello! A few fun things to share today: Radiant Shimmering Light is officially available in bookstores down under! My novel received a lovely review on Radio NZ’s review program Nine to Noon. I wrote this piece about being an artist + entrepreneur and writing Radiant Shimmering Light for the Australian magazine Kill Your… [Read More]
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