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If You Want to Write a Book, Don’t Listen to Stephen Hunter
A few days ago, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Stephen Hunter published an essay at the Daily Beast titled, rather provocatively, “If You Want to Write a Book, Write Every Day or Quit Now.” Since then,...
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Midyear Writing News!
We appear to be halfway through 2017 already, which is surely some sort of cosmic accounting error. To compensate, here is some writing news. I’m thrilled to have won the 2017 Ditmar Award for Best Fan...
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Writers, Entitlement, Snark – Oh, My!
As busy as I am right now, I can’t seem to move past this article about Dan Thomson, a 68-year-old man who recently filed a complaint against the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, claiming they rejected his...
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Writing Women: Thoughts
A few days ago, I went on a Twitter rant about female characterisation and Mad Max: Fury Road which ended up attracting rather more attention than I’d anticipated. As such, a few people replied to ask...
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Dear Abbie: An Open Letter
The above opinion crossed my path today via this tumblr post. Other folks have already responded to it on Twitter and elsewhere, but I’m nonetheless moved to add my voice to that chorus. “When did we...
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New York Literary Magazine: A Series of Unfortunate Events
It’s not every day that I’m indirectly accused of ruining someone’s business, but 2017 has been a hell of a year. On Christmas Day, I – along with many other writers in the SFF community – received an...
View ArticleTV Series: The Emotional Buy-In
Over the past few years, I’ve thought a lot – and, at times, said a lot – about the impact of DVD box sets and digital streaming services on how we now consume and construct TV series. To put the whole...
View ArticleBook Review: Docile
Warning: significant spoilers for Docile Trigger warning: talk of rape, sexual assault and sexual slavery In a near-future Baltimore, Maryland where all debts are generationally inherited, 21-year-old...
View ArticleA Response to Meghan Cox Gurdon and the WSJ
The literary community has seen more than its fair share of bad takes and ugly discourse this year, and with only a handful of days remaining before the start of 2021, you might’ve thought we’d be...
View Articleon absences & beginnings, of a sort
I haven’t been blogging much, lately. I’ve wanted to at times – the ideas have been there, the impetus to say something – but I’ve bled it off in Twitter threads rather than coming here, because...
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