42 | What I'm letting go of this fall

And what an ancient Finnish harvest festival showed me about fresh starts

41 | Seasonal shifts, revisiting projects

Editing feels different when the world is in-between.

38 | Iceland as reflector

How five days in Iceland showed me Finland instead.

35 | Giveaway! New title for Seeker of the Lost Song!

Exciting things on the horizon ✌🏼

34 | Survive out of spite

Some ways to not give up <3

33 | The cold.

Knowing myself in the solitude of winter

32 | Get exclusive access to my big 2025 project!

Join me in creative experimentation 🪄

31 | Momentum at least, at last

Thoughts on a new year

30 | Discovering my voice in old writing

“Summer 2000: Cinematic Suckfest”

28 | How I wrote my first short story in four years

I tried something I've never considered before!

27 | Building better worlds

How I start my worldbuilding process

26 | Morning in your childhood home

On feeling unmoored, and weird serendipity

25 | The Quiet is Loud and old Filipino restaurants

Creating my own version of Filipinoness

22 | Writing, revived

& learning to be inspired by myself

21 | The inevitability of Peter Gabriel

Inspiration for writing & creativity

20 | The top 5 resources I use in writing SF/F novels

(Plus a few more!)

19 | When I have nothing else, I have history

Over and over and over and over

18 | . . .

16 | On creativity & ego

As in: what's so bad about an ego?

15 | Start out chuckling

AKA the time I was in Reader's Digest and made my mom very proud.

14 | Apples, chewing, 2017

Let's have another interlude, shall we?

13 | Being an outsider, writing the outsider

(Not in an emo way, I promise)

12 | Two years of The Quiet is Loud

AKA WTF is even time?

11 | Three ways to do a DIY writing retreat

Fourth time's the charm?

10 | An interlude

Give me a honey dip, honey.