The Hugo Awards, which celebrate the very best literary achievements in science fiction and fantasy, had announced they would be nominating Archive Of Our Own in the Related Works category. [UPDATE: AO3 won! Congrats!] For those not in the know, Archive of our Own (or AO3, as it is affectionately called) is an online compendium […]
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Writing While Black – Expectations in Genre Fiction for People of Colour
I had a lot of time to think about Jordan Peele’s movie Us. I saw it with my sister opening weekend, and my initial reaction was…not favourable. I expected popular opinion to follow suit, but turns out I was in the minority. The film blew up the box office, becoming the highest-grossing horror movie since […]
How to Have Positivity in Your Writing
I live in Toronto, and our city is home to the basketball team the Toronto Raptors. There is a delightful clip that emerged on the Internet of Raptor Serge Ibaka trekking through a winter day. This is Canada, mind you, and in late January the snow and the wind are all the more treacherous. Beautiful […]
5 Reasons Writers Should Always Consistently Create
I got an email notifying me of a private message on my fanfiction.net account. It read as followed: Hi; I noticed in your profile, that one of your favorite stories is Hey Arnold. I wrote a few Hey Arnold stories a while back. Have you read any of them? If not, when you have time, […]
Writer! Don’t Do it For the Money
When I was a child, my top 3 career choices were actor, writer, and mad scientist. After I realized the first and last option were probably not going to pan out, I put all my focus on becoming an author. In the 6th grade we had Career Day, and an actual author came to speak […]