by kylanemms | Jul 20, 2022 | Essay
So you’re headed to a writing conference and have a chance to pitch to an agent. Congratulations. I’m going to my first conference this summer, Writer’s Digest 2022, and understand the nerves. Oh, the anxiety! I’m going to compile the best...
by kylanemms | Jul 3, 2022 | Essay
If you’re reading this, you likely don’t need to be told what ‘Writing Anxiety’ is. I’d wager you’ve experienced it firsthand, maybe often enough that it’s become a recurring symptom of your writing life, perhaps even a disease. This is fair. Writing is a lonely...
by kylanemms | Jun 16, 2022 | Craft
Is your writing falling flat? Struggling to breath? Lying deader than a cadaver in an ill-funded med clinic? You need to liven things up a bit. How to do this, you ask? By employing the 5 human senses: sight, smell, sound, touch and taste. Engage the...
by kylanemms | Mar 12, 2022 | Personal
Let’s get this straight: I’m not fond of most—most—blogs, and I absolutely, positively, super-cali-fragil-istic-expiali-dociously detest writing my own. Yet here I am, having to write something I have no interest in writing, and stuck in a quagmire of google analytics...
by kylanemms | Feb 28, 2022 | Essay
Whether fiction has had much tangible effect on the world is up for debate. Despite people having read 1984 and Brave New World, we appear to inch closer to a brave new world of our own. A new political exposé might appear to not make a lick of difference. Societal...
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