If you haven’t gone through formal education in Chinese, you may not know how the characters are constructed. You may…
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You Don’t Owe Anyone Disclosure
Social media gives people unprecedented access to authors. Many people in turn feel entitled to creators’ private lives. The opposite…
Read ’Em And Weep: Which reviews hold weight?
It’s commonly touted advice for writers to not read reviews of their work. Even if you’re good at handling criticism,…
Twitter 101: Account Types and Semipublic Spaces
As social media becomes more a norm of everyday life, it seems harder and harder to ignore the pressure to…
Twitter Is Not Your Friend
Let’s talk about the word “friend.” We often throw the term around loosely, especially on social media. But if you’re…
Navigating the Genre: A Beginner’s Atlas
Last updated on January 19, 2021: Added IAFA Imagining Indigenous Futurisms award. Removed note for Fireside Fiction, which has now…
Big Ideas: A Planner for Creatives
Big Ideas is a modular planner intended for creatives, especially writers of speculative fiction. It combines disability-centered worksheet pages and planner…
Self-care Suggestions for Clarion West Students
Please note: These are suggestions and invitations based on my own experience attending Clarion West in 2016. If my advice…
Neoprounouns in Speculative Fiction
The following table gathers works of speculative fiction that use neopronouns, whether prominently or peripherally. A “neopronoun” is, for the…