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Thought of the Day: Critiquing is Easy. Doing is Hard.

Anything can be critiqued. Criticizing something is easy. It makes the critiquer feel smart, and just a little bit superior to the writer.

But that kind of critique serves no real purpose, because that kind of critique is wrong from the moment the critiquer picks up the story or the manuscript or the 400-year-old play.

Readers read for enjoyment.

~ Perfection, Kristine Kathryn Rusch

If you dare to create, you are ipso facto greater than the one who only dares critique.

 

Made It Monday: Simple Flower Cake :)

Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit back and enjoy scrolling through all the beautiful things we’ve collectively created, and celebrate the fact that humans can be awesome!

5 Mythical Creatures That Might Actually Exist

I thought this video was only 5 mins, and by the time I realised it was 10 I was totally committed.

Launch Day!

 

And there will be copies of The Complete Sanctuary Series there as well, a week early

Is It Friday Yet?

I swear, I had something useful to say here today, and then Life Happened and now I’m brainless and ready for bed and Friday. It was something to do with Sunday? I don’t even know.

Anyway, things are happening, the lovely twinny helped me figure out the plothole that was blocking my on #SekritNovel, so once all the Death-lines (deadlines) of this week are over, I should be able to resume work on that again. FYI, #SekritNovel is pegged as my October 2019 release, so there’s still a bit of a wa...

Made It Monday: Cake the Moarth

Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I’ve made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you’ve made in the last week (ish; let’s say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit back and enjoy scrolling through all the beautiful things we’ve collectively created, and celebrate the fact that humans can be awesome!

RL Megalodons?

Look, I’m sceptical–none of these videos are particularly convincing proof–but hey, it’s entertaining to speculate, right? What else are Fridays for, if not tenuously plausible hope-filled speculation of Things That Maybe Are?

The Book, She LIIIIIVES!!!! (I.e. When Worlds Collide Is Out Today)

YOU GUYS I MADE A TRILO-THINGIE. I JUST. CAN’T. EVEN. 

Obviously, this is just the beginning, and right now I am so far into not even the NEXT book I’ll be releasing, but the next-next book, so finishing When Worlds Collide kind of feels like something that happened years ago anyway? BUT! I have never before had a complete trilogy for sale, and that feels like it probably counts for something

In Which I Am Actually Super Dumb, You Know.

…The other thing I seem to be really good at doing on a regular basis is forgetting lessons I have already learned. This week, in Things Amy Did But Should Have Known Better, more amines!

I stumbled across this post from last year on the weekend, and was like, yup, definitely used to be smarter at one point >.< Last week was a write-off due to an unhappy confluence of deadlines + work stuff, but I lost the two weeks before that to amines. I’d somehow forgotten ALL ABOUT the also-unhappy relationship between amine-consumption and my ability to write, and was trialling eating amines (no, auto-correct, not Admins, that would be a Very Different Tale) for breakfast and lunch but not dinner. It seemed to work okay for my ability to sleep, at least for a week, until I crashed significantly on Sunday night and ended up having to go home from work sick on Monday >.< #LifeFail. It was about that point that I realised I hadn’t written a thing all week.

And then I didn’t write anything the next week, because I was recovering. And then I didn’t write anything last week because: confluence of deadlines. And then I’ve written barely any...

< #LifeFail. It was about that point that I realised I hadn’t written a thing all week.< Last week was a write-off due to an unhappy confluence of deadlines + work stuff, but I lost the two weeks before that to amines. I’d somehow forgotten ALL ABOUT the also-unhappy relationship between amine-consumption and my ability to write, and was trialling eating amines (no, auto-correct, not Admins, that would be a Very Different Tale) for breakfast and lunch but not dinner. It seemed to work okay for my ability to sleep, at least for a week, until I crashed significantly on Sunday night and ended up having to go home from work sick on Monday >

Related to #MeToo

I wrote the below post back in November last year, but I couldn’t bring myself to post it at the time. It felt too much like screaming into the void, and it hurt, and I hurt, and everything was just too much.

I found the post this past weekend, when I was trawling through my drafts trying to schedule posts for what is going to be yet another hectically busy week (is it wrong that I’m counting down until holidays already?), and I reread it, and it doesn’t hurt quite so raw-ly as it did, so I’m...