It’s hard to imagine that Chaos Calling: Book I of The Xenthian Cycle would exist if I’d never taken a creative writing course with Nalo Hopkinson at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies. Before taking the course, I’d finished a novel draft and was working on a second project. I was excited about […]
Ten years ago, I stopped believing I would finish writing a novel. And I have never been so wrong. Editor’s note about “Don’t Stop Believing”: I originally published this essay on Medium. But their analytics are getting increasingly weird, so I’m giving it a permanent home here. * * * It was raining that night. […]
I originally wrote this post on Medium in 2015. I remember being excited that some ‘important’ Twitter accounts engaged with it. I’ve left the references to the manuscript that would eventually become Chaos Calling as-is. Once upon a time, I wrote a post assessing the pros and cons of the Wattpad platform for aspiring writers on my […]