It's the last day of 2018, so I'm thinking about the year that's passed, like everybody else today. I often feel conflicted at the end of a year, but I can't remember a recent year that's left the future feeling quite as uncertain as this one has. To … [Read more]
Christmas short story thingy
I wrote a short story for my parents for Christmas. I started it with the idea that I'd write it around our family and the silly traditions I love so well. And though some of that stuff made it in there, it mostly turned into some kind of queer YA … [Read more]
Snippet: At Your Gate
This isn't an excerpt from my novel, currently called DREAM BROTHER, but rather a short snippet I wrote as an exercise while I was in the midst of finishing my first draft. It was written from a timed challenge I did with my teen writing group, and … [Read more]
The sensitivity paradox
I've often complained (and by "complained," I mean "bragged") that one of the difficulties of my job teaching teenagers is that they are much too interesting as people, which means that it requires regular, fairly vigorous discipline to not just let … [Read more]
Yes, I am still writing a novel.
Now that the opera is finally over, I've finished the second draft of my novel, and have it out to my first batch of beta readers. My greatest struggle over the past few days, as I begin the (probably longish) wait for feedback, is not obsessively … [Read more]
Dido & Aeneas wrap-up
I’ve been doing some angsting out loud over questions of sustainability and the viability of the Opera Workshop in the community, which is sort of the inevitable result of the dust clearing on a financially difficult year. When the excitement over … [Read more]
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