Stories have power. As readers, we’ve been profoundly affected by story magic, and as writers, we’ve studied the spell work to make our manuscripts sparkle like that too. However, the stories we ... READ the POST
Writing a Book: Early Plotting
Writers often sort themselves into three Hogwarts Houses: pantser, plotter, and plantser. PantserDefinition: someone who flies by the seat of their pants. Pantsers are pure Hufflepuff ... READ the POST
Writing a Book: Spark
You’re seven years old, curled up in the backseat of the family Jeep with a blanket bunched up around your neck and a purple gameboy discarded beside you. The road stretches out in an unending ... READ the POST
Writing a Book: Start To Finish
Stories are magic. You’ve probably seen the joke that reading is nothing more than staring at the tattooed remains of trees and hallucinating vividly. But like, yeah. It is. A ... READ the POST
The Danger of Universals (Resources)
Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow Beth E. Richie's Arrested Justice Andrea Smith's Conquest ... READ the POST
The Danger of Universals
or How a Bunch of White, Cishet European Dudes Weaponized Literature Content Warnings: cultural & physical genocide against Indigenous peoples, colonial practices, systemic racism, ... READ the POST