Reading Time: 6 minutes When I was in highschool, one of the most controversial topics of conversation was who your eight best friends on Myspace were. I was one of many girls who used a Supre tote as a school bag and had a punk phase where I wore studded belt outside of my belt loops to look more…
Reading Time: 7 minutes Let’s go back to early February. I’m curled up on my bed. The pain is everywhere. It’s so bad, I can’t keep still. Moving is involuntary; my whole body spasms. I start pacing up and down the hallway. My footsteps are heavy, and I’m hunched forwards. I try and push the cramps up into…
Reading Time: 7 minutes Last year I burnt myself out. I was working a full time job as a lecturer while writing a novel, publishing poetry, and trying to maintain a freelance career and author platform. I was doing too much. I’ve since worked hard to cut down on the amount of work I take on outside of my…
Reading Time: 7 minutes As well as a writer, I’m a UX designer. I’ve wanted to write a more design focused blog post for a while, but it hasn’t seemed wholly relevant to the theme of this blog (until today). There are two dual areas I’ve been researching; dystopian science fiction and dystopian design. I want to talk, specifically,…
Reading Time: 4 minutes My step-dad died on Saturday the 11th of May 2019 at 11pm. I put off writing this for a long time, because I honestly had nothing to say. I’m still not sure I have anything of value to share. Death touches everyone. It always feels like the world had stopped spinning for everyone but…
Reading Time: 5 minutes I’ve been working on an application for a grant with writer, David Thomas Henry Wright (he’s really the mastermind behind the project). It’s an electronic literature proposal and it’s been quite time consuming. This is my own fault though; I wanted to create a test site as part of the project uses a Content Management…
Reading Time: 6 minutes When I started writing my novel, I knew a lot about trauma and nothing about the military. I knew from the very beginning I wanted to filter this experience of trauma through science fiction. So why am I writing science fiction? My first novel is a science fiction novel because, as a genre, I feel…
Reading Time: 8 minutes Today I’m talking to David Thomas Henry Wright about electronic literature. If this genre is new to you, don’t panic. David defines electronic literature in his interview very succinctly, saying “It’s probably better to start by defining what electronic literature isn’t. It isn’t e-books. Rather, electronic literature refers to literary works that depend on computers/code…
Reading Time: 5 minutes I did not write an outline for the first draft of my novel, but you should. I wrote about 5,000 words for the 2015 NaNoWriMo challenge. I had no plan. I just wanted words on the page. Back then I didn’t believe in my skills as a writer, so a few days in, I…
Reading Time: 5 minutes I’m a better writer because I travel, which is good, because I travel a lot. Let me demonstrate by looking only at this year so far. I saw 2019 in from the Isle of Skye in Scotland. I spent most of January driving around Scotland and England. Right now I’m in Cambodia with my…