Had an interesting experience earlier in the year when doing the illustrations for And Then I Shall Transform: there are six short stories, so obviously I did six illustrations… except I ended up doing seven. Why? Because one of the illustrations I did just didn’t work. Here it is: Now, it’s not a BAD illustration […]
Iteration, Or, When Things Don’t Work Read More »
Welcome to Throwback Thursday, where I pull one of my books/stories out of the archives and reintroduce it to you! This is fun because it means I get to revisit my past work and remember a) why I liked it and b) that I’ve actually written Quite A Few Books Now Thank You Very Much,
Throwback Thursday: For A Little While Read More »
Getting back into the habit of things is significantly on my mind of late as I try to restart writing after 6 months off. I ended the month with nearly 15,000 words, which is pretty good for a cold start, considering I didn’t really write the first week of August and it’s been as aforementioned
Resistance and Habits and Feeling Uncomfortable and What To Do About All Of It Read More »
Sometimes, you’re thinking about a thing because of life circumstances and all (in this case, teaching feminist critical literary theory to a class last week), and you feel like maybe you should go write it all down and figure it all out somehow… And then you stumble across something that makes you realise, actually, you’ve
In Which There Is No Off Switch For Caution (A Retitled Repost) Read More »
Phew. Got knocked around a bit last week getting sick, but I guess I shouldn’t really be surprised: it was a ridiculous couple of weeks, what with a grandparent dying, a grandparent getting critically ill, and me suddenly acquiring a mini leadership role at work o.O So yeah. Not especially surprised, really, that as soon
On Relearning How To Write/Create Regularly Read More »
Today, random sketching. Finally finished reading Macbeth with my class and we had ten minutes left of class. They’d come in the day before from art all keen and drawing-y, so I was like, cool, let’s illustrate! As some of you will remember, Macbeth is described at the end of the play as the ‘dead
Made-It Monday: Macbeth Read More »
In sharp contrast to our man Draco of the last two days, I present to you one of the many, many reasons that Snape is a jerk: See, unlike Draco, Snape is now what we call a ‘legal adult’. Wait, there’s a quote from the queen herself about this… Yes, Draco is approaching maturity in
Look, Apparently It’s Harry Potter Week And We’re All Going To Be Okay With That Read More »
I think I’ve mentioned this in a cagey manner before now, but it’s official and announceable and exciting: I have an article in the current issue of Aurealis! Yes, THAT Aurealis, of the Aurealis Awards, Australia’s answer to the Nebula and Hugos. Like, whoa. The article is about climate and worldbuilding (a la How To
Aurealis, Updates, and New Releases Read More »
Stumbled across this April 2014 post in the archives on the weekend, and given I’ve just started back for the 2019 teaching year, and at a new school too, I feel like this was timely. 🙂 An ex-student asked me about the pros and cons of being an English teacher, as they are considering it
The Pros And Cons Of English Teaching (A Timely Repost) Read More »
See yesterday’s post for Reasons 1 through 3. REASON FOUR: SOCIAL/POWER STRUCTURES In all of this, there may be some interesting things going on with our background psychology. Some monkey scientists (as in scientists who study monkeys, not, you know, unusually inquiring and intellectual monkeys) have suggested that when monkeys groom each other, it’s not
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