Over the past two months, I had several great opportunities to talk about writing on other people’s platforms and launch a column at the same time. These pieces have been out there for some time (no novelty value here), but it’s only now I had the time to sit down and collect them in a post as a reminder. Read More A Gathering of Links
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Technically, the SFWA kerfuffle is over (seriously my writing this is not really related with the scandal portion), but me being gay has a lot to do with how personally I took the bursts of sexism exploding around the Internet. I am forever tied with the fighting for women and their right to be respected, because a lot of what they go through, LGBT people go through. It’s discrimination based on something ludicrous (as all discrimination is) and I’m going to speak about why the LGBT folks are going to have it tough in the community, if we’re still having to deal with finally giving women the equality they deserve. Read More I Talk About the LGBT Side of the SFWA Kerfuffle
I was away for some time and while it’s taking some time to get into a certain routine I had a wee bit guest posting done in my absence. I spoke about my road to Clarion (a still ongoing journey mind you). Here is a short excerpt: Read More I Talk about Applying for Clarion on BOOKLIFE NOW
Music and I have a funny relationship when it comes to writing.
I didn’t think that the two were acquainted until I stopped listening to music completely (but that is a different story). The well of words slowly dried up, and finding them became a chore. Sitting at the desk left me restless.
Writing is such a bodiless occupation. It transports your mind elsewhere, consumes everything, and it’s easy to neglect the body in the process. I realized I use music to reconnect.
Sometimes in the summer months, I’ll walk home with my ear buds in, hardly paying attention to the music. It makes the walk go faster, a background to my thoughts, muting the unimportant ones: deadlines, what to cook for dinner. Somehow, the joyful ones, the obscene ones, the terrifying ones, the reckless ones, manage to get through. Read More Theresa Bazelli on Music and Writing