Music is a huge part of my writing process. As the daughter of two professional musicians, I grew up in a household where music was everywhere, and to this day someone is almost always tuning, practicing, or making some other kind of musical noise in our house. I learned early on what a powerful tool… Continue reading 5 Awesome Ambient Music Recommendations For Writers
Hey there! If you’re not following me on Instagram, you should go do that, because I just posted a teaser of one of my current projects, Nothing Is Here! But if social media isn’t your cup of tea, here’s what you need to know! Nothing Is Here is an adult sci-fi horror novel that follows Asa… Continue reading Meet the WIP! (Okay, one of them) | NOTHING IS HERE
Many moons ago, I did a post on ways to make your sci-fi technology more realistic. My day job is in aerospace engineering and am I also a serial nitpicker with more pet peeves than you can shake a stick at, so if you thought that post was the end of my ranting – well,… Continue reading 4 more tips for writing realistic sci-fi technology
Research is one of my favorite parts of the writing process, but I’ll be the first to admit I tend to overdo it. Back in the pre-Google days, my mom was a reference librarian, so this is practically written into my DNA. I grew up in a house stacked with reference books, with an on-call… Continue reading Do you really need to Google that? A beginner’s guide to novel research
“I can’t apologize to you. I came to tell you the truth. That’s all.” -Sonya Kantor, Poster Girl Poster Girl is the best book I’ve read in a long, long time. I knew I’d enjoy it – I was a child of the dystopian YA lit boom in the late 2000s, and a massive fan… Continue reading Book Review: Poster Girl by Veronica Roth
Believe it or not, I planned to publish this the same weekend Part 2 of Stranger Things Season 4 released, way back in the beginning of July. But after witnessing a lot of discourse online, rewatching the entire season from the start, and rewriting this post more times than I can even count, a review… Continue reading Stranger Things Season 4 has some important lessons for writers
Once upon a time, I got bit by a story bug and spent the entire weekend doing barrels and barrels of research for a manuscript that may or may not ever actually end up being written, ignoring friends, relations, and my cat as they expressed concern for my sanity and time management skills. And by… Continue reading So, you want to retell a fairy tale
If I call this review spoiler-free, does that mean I have to not say anything to do with Hopper? Or am I allowed to acknowledge that he’s alive? Are we all past that cliffhanger now? Can we as a society please move on? Yes? Ok, good. So, welcome to my virtually spoiler-free review of Stranger… Continue reading Stranger Things Season 4 Part 1: a (mostly) spoiler-free review
HAPPY STRANGER THINGS DAY!!! In honor of the long-awaited arrival of season 4 of one of my favorite shows of all time, I wanted to write about the genre this work of art calls home: Lovecraftian horror. What is it, where did it come from, and how do you write it? Fair warning, this post… Continue reading How to ace Lovecraftian horror and creep everyone out
Let me say one thing very loudly and very clearly right now: sci-fi does not have to be scientifically accurate to be good. This is one of the profound truths upon which my view of the universe is built. All fiction relies on suspension of disbelief to a certain degree, and there are no rules… Continue reading An engineer’s guide to writing realistic sci-fi
