Category: Writing Antics

  • How to Write Spec Fic

    How to Write Spec Fic

    I don’t know what I’ve gotten myself into. A year ago, I launched a Substack on the foolhardy belief I was ready to write a massive work of speculative fiction. Because my writing veers towards epistolary for longer works, the plan was to drip-feed characters’ diary entries as blog posts and create an online archive…

  • Zero-Sum

    Zero-Sum

    Since my last post, I have received one agent rejection and one (or three?) competition rejection(s). Indomitable, I continue to write whatever words appear in my head and pay for disappointment; I’m not writing to make money, but it is sickening when other people profit from your disenchantment. And that’s what I want to write…