I don’t know what it is about short stories but I really struggle with them. I have loved reading them, although I generally find myself drawn to novels and novellas; some of my favorites are Angela Carter’s collection in The Bloody Chamber, and Too Much…
Category: writing
I’ve been writing fiction steadily now for a year and a half (and sporadically for ten years before that). Here are some things I’m working on about my writing process. I am not a short story person. I wish I were, because I love reading…
Today we’re heading up north. D’s parents live on Vancouver Island, on a hobby farm in Comox Valley. They keep horses and a stunning vegetable garden on 25 acres of gorgeous greenery and two greenhouses. It’s a vegetarian’s paradise. I’ve been looking forward to this…
I’m working on a fanfiction. It’s interesting to me that I still feel slightly embarrassed by this statement, even though I have unabashedly read and loved fanfic for years. There’s something about taking it up myself, though, that gives me pause. I think it’s a…