Friday Fiction: Farmer’s Market
(Sorry about skipping the AFI Top 100 review for this week. I took a crack at it and just hated what I wrote — it sounded needlessly defensive and unworthy of the subject material. I’ll try to make it...
View ArticleClarion Write-A-Thon 2013 is a Go!
I feel like I’m failing at the whole fundraising part of this thing because I haven’t talked it up nearly enough, but that will change starting today! As I’ve mentioned before, I’ll be participating in...
View ArticleFriday Fiction: Unstable Future Snippet
(The Clarion Write-A-Thon fundraiser was…unsuccessful, to put it mildly. I wasn’t able to drum up any donations for the workshop and subsequently my will to follow through on writing Unstable Future...
View ArticleHow Our Writing Gets Better
There’s a bit of an ongoing kerfluffle in the furry writing community about critics of stories and the role they should play. From my admittedly limited experience with the subject, it seems like the...
View ArticleFriday Fiction: An Origin Story (Part 1)
(Hey, Friday fiction is back! I’m sure you were waiting avidly for this. :) I’ve been wanting to write a superhero story for the longest time, so I thought I’d make a serial of it. Written in the style...
View ArticleFriday Fiction: Player of the Game, Part 1
(This is a small bit of fiction I’ve written for the FBA, the Furry Basketball Association. My character is one Dan Quvianuq, a giant polar bear center who’s been having a rough month of it. This is...
View ArticleWhat I Learned from the 2014 Clarion Write-A-Thon
As I’m sure most of you know by now I participated in the Clarion Write-a-Thon this year with the aim of writing 50,000 words between June 22nd and August 2nd of this year. I’m pleased to announce that...
View ArticleIt’s the End of Summer, Start Falling
The summer of 2014 was a pretty crazy one for me! Most of it has been structured around Ryan’s trip to Clarion, the associated Write-A-Thon and all of the lessons I’ve learned since then. It turns out...
View ArticleA Look Into the Future
I’ve been a little more quiet on the writing front than I feel comfortable with, but there’s a reason for that. When I get deep into various projects, I tend to talk about them less because I guess I...
View ArticleRainfurrest 2015 Wrap-Up
Another Rainfurrest has come and gone, and I really loved the convention this year. The panels were fun and interesting, but more importantly I got to hang and chat with a bunch of people I had only...
View Article(Wednesday Fiction) Br’ers – Orientation
I wanted to find a way to marry two of my interests, and came up with this setting. I’m still figuring things out, so the snippets will be a little rough for the next two weeks, but I thought it was...
View Article(Friday Fiction) Br’ers – Break
And here’s the next little bit. Still figuring out the setting while trying to make connections between Greggory’s experience and experiences I’ve had being a “black face in a white space”. This one...
View Article(Writing) Howdy, Br’er!
This month for Fiction Friday, I’ll be giving the Br’er scenario another try. I’m not sure what people thought of the couple fragments I posted last month, but I wasn’t really happy with them — I think...
View Article(Friday Fiction) Br’ers: One on One
Today’s post is a little bit late; sorry about that. It feels like I’ve been playing catch-up since the year started! I’ll be working double-time for a little while to try and get ahead of things....
View Article(Writing) Ye Olde List of Projects
The biggest takeaway from my week of Infomagical is the seriously wonderful idea of narrowing my focus to one or two things and working on them until they’re done. I have a bad habit of saying yes to...
View Article(Friday Fiction) A Birthday of Legend
A dear friend of mine celebrated his birthday a week or two ago, and I offered him a quick short story as an impromptu present. As usual, it took me a little longer than I would have liked to finish it...
View Article(Writing) Clarion Write-A-Thon, Week 2
This summer I’ll be participating in the Clarion Write-A-Thon, a fundraiser for the Clarion Workshop. What is Clarion, you ask? Why, it’s the pre-eminent six-week intensive for budding writers in...
View Article(Fandom) Afrofuturism and Furry
Over the weekend I attended Further Confusion 2018 with over 3,400 other furries in San Jose, CA and let me tell you, it was a pretty great time. I got to catch up with a lot of friends from all over...
View ArticleDifursity Review: Come So Far, But So Far to Go
The social justice reckoning in our little corner of the Internet has been inspiring to see. Furries have listened to and amplified the voices of its BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color)...
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