Lessons From a Carnivorous Plant

I recently bought a brand new plant baby. This is Sera (short for Drosera capensis). She’s a little sundew plant. I’m quite smitten with her gem-like colors and shiny droplet-tipped trichomes. I also love that she’s helping control my fruit fly problem. That’s because Sera is a carnivorous plant and will happily digest any insect

Elemental Succubi in the Horticulturati World

While most of the magic in my Horticulturati world are in the magic plants (and magic fungi), there are also a few magical creatures. The Greenies, for one – but we’ll get to those in a later post. (Buckle up – they’re weird!) One group of magic creatures that makes several appearances is the elemental

March Updates, Featuring Banter, Theft, and Charity

The bad news about March is that I haven’t written any words on The Atlas Brothers Break the Multiverse in three whole weeks. I miss my boys. The good news is that the reason I wasn’t writing Atlas Brothers was because I was writing a new short story for an LGBTQ+ charity anthology instead! That’s

Random Unworld Ecology Worldbuilding Snapshots: Flora & Fauna

This month, for fun, I decided to try to keep up with not one, but two social media daily prompt games. One is focused on worldbuilding in the Unworld Ecology world (#MarchWorldbuilders), and the other is snippets from my fantasy romance Hearts of Bark and Scale (#MarchoftheWhumps). It’s been keeping me on my toes, but

New Story is Out, Writing is Slow, and Other Updates

Happy leap year! Even with the extra day this year, February still felt extremely short – and also extremely full of non-writing things. Life has been busy! But writing has been slow. My update this month is going to be a little short. The big news for the start of the month is that I

Multiverse Travel in the Atlas Brothers

The overarching premise of The Atlas Brothers Break the Multiverse is four brothers who travel through the multiverse until they run into trouble and get lost, then have to find their way home again. Obviously, lots of shenanigans (and soul-searching, and sibling bickering, and growth as people, and…) happens along the way. But still, the

Antipodal World: Shifters

“Bravado” by Wheatart I’ve been mostly living in the Atlas Brothers world lately (there’s still so much story left to write, and so many more dimensions to visit…), but that doesn’t mean I’m not still thinking about my other worlds!  I have plans (hopes?) to revise Hearts of Bark and Scale (aka that Snakeboi x

A New Year is Born

Happy New Year! 🥳 Is it really a brand new year already? Where did 2023 go? I am Not Ready™️. It has become something of an annual tradition for me to spend my first blog post of the year looking back at everything I accomplished the year before, as well as take some time to evaluate my writing

The Freedom and Danger of Naming on the Fly

It’s a struggle every writer knows well: how to pick the perfect name. A name for a character, or a city, or a species, or a country, or…anything really. Given free rein, I’ll often deliberate and obsess over picking the perfect name, sometimes for way too long. I’ll scour baby name websites and use foreign language dictionaries and

The End of Another NaNoWriMo

We’ve reached the end of another November, and with it, the end of another National Novel Writing Month. And we arrived right in time for final exams, the end of the semester, and final grades – so if I’m a little MIA for the next couple of weeks, you’ll find me under that giant pile