The Ghost of NaNos Past

I didn’t participate this year, but NaNoWriMo has always held a very, very special place in my heart. It was in NaNoWriMo 2016 that I pushed myself to write the first draft of my debut novel, Honey Butter, which was published nine months later in August 2017.

Write What You Know

Ah, that one simple sentence which is the bane of every fantasy writer's existence. "Write what you know." "But how then?" The fantasy writer argues, frowning and leaning forward in his chair, "am I to write about dragons? Fairy balls? Death-defying rescues?" The answer is simpler than you may believe. “Fiction is Truth's elder sister," Rudyard Kipling [...]

Still A Masterpiece

The National Gallery London, England, February 2018 The room was crowded with tourists and art enthusiasts. The melody of different languages touched my ears. A thousand different smells. A thousand different voices. People clustered about the painting, and between the crush of somber colored coats, here and there, a flicker of yellow met my eyes. My father and [...]