As a storyteller and someone who has studied folklore and history, I am a devotee of the idea that stories shape the world — both looking forward and looking backward.
For me, the idea of resistance is an important one. As someone who struggles constantly to cross the border from dreaming to accomplishing, being able to conceive of that the struggle as something external and inevitable is reassuring.
As much as I enjoy the process of composing a blog post, I love being able to engage with my past self when I reread it years later.
Fifteen years ago, I wrote a blog post about why blogging was important to me. I had been blogging on various platforms for about five years at that time and,
As a fantasy novelist and editor, I have spent a lot of time reading books and writing sites to learn as much as I can about my craft (and trying