So mid-May a friend and I saw the Welcome to Night Vale live show, and it was fabulous. Like so much in fandom, the actual act/product/thing was/is wonderful, but there are always other parts of the evening that round it out, and those can go either way. The venue was nice enough, though the staff … More Fandom Friday: Welcome to Night Vale…Except For You.
After fumbling through the beginning of teenagerdom in Jr. High, dealing with on and off friends, and all the other fun things that 80’s sitcoms didn’t fully prepare me for, high school was mostly uneventful. My freshman year was a little bit of an acclimation time. There was also a theme of me fast growing … More Influences: Becoming a Germ of the Wild
So I know I’ve been relying on tour posts lately, but I am trying to get back to actual content (she says, for the four thousandth time in a row). After changing jobs and losing a very close friend last year, I think part of me just needed time to reset and figure out where … More Moving Forward
I want to mix things up and share a sewing/costume/artsy project of mine at least once a month. I talk about my artistic life often enough, but I haven’t really shown a lot of it, so that needs to change. Although we’re into March, this seems suitable for both February and Women in Horror Month. … More February Project: Broken Heart Purse
So all in all, this has been an interesting WiHM 2015. I have to admit, going in I had mixed feelings – I usually do. While I love having a chance to explore the genre I dearly love and am fascinated by, and I truly do feel that we need to explore gender roles within … More If only I was as Hot as Stephen King: WiHM 2015 Thoughts
More of a casual essay, this piece is also included in Lost in the Shadows. People brushing off art or their own possibility by claiming they’re not creative has always bothered me. I don’t get that thought process – you’re breathing, you’re thinking, you can have ideas. I’ve also never quite got the process of … More Prose: Ideas Abound
And you thought you’d escaped this! As I’ve been trying to get organized (ha) and attempting to clean (bwaha), I’ve unearthed some fabulous artifacts from my early writing life So of course the only option for this is to use it to humiliate myself, obviously. For those who aren’t familiar, every once in a while … More The Lost Manuscripts: Tom the Turkey
To keep on going with the ideas can come from anywhere theme, I thought I’d put up a short today and touch on a little bit of back story. I go through stages where I outline or craft definite genre pieces, but at times I slide back into things that aren’t quite one thing or … More Prose: On Fire
I’ve been debating if I was going to mention this for a few weeks now, ever since a friend of mine posted it on Facebook. I agree with a lot of it, but I also think that it (somewhat) takes for granted what a hard time it is if you choose to make a creative … More Real Life as an Artist or How Much are You Worth?
I had wanted to do this post for Halloween week, but eh, things got away from me. So we’ll just explore this now, eh? So I’ve mentioned before that I grew up as kind of a scaredy-cat. I couldn’t watch scary movies without freaking out (even though I snuck off in video stores to read … More Halloween, Horror, Life, and Ancient Burial Sites
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