The illustrious Carmen Machado (@carmenmmachado), one of my many talented classmates from Clarion 2012, invited me to participate in this blog tour, in which we talk about our writing processes (pronounce that with a long “e;” it sounds more sophisticated). She was invited by Sofia Samatar, who was invited by Daniel Jose Older, and so on. … More The Sausage Factory, or: My writing process, a chain letter
Several weeks ago, my dear friend (and obscenely talented writer) Sam J. Miller was asking me about my experience reading slush for an SFF magazine, which I had just stopped doing after six wacky and wild months of aliens, wizards and–we’ll talk more about this last one later–Nazis. He encouraged me to put my reflections … More Lessons learned in slushing
In this blog entry, I intend to talk about some stuff that’s probably been talked about a lot on the internet already. So feel free to quit reading here, because it’s going to be all Iron Man 3 and the purpose and wonder of fan fiction. Yup. Fan fiction. So if you weren’t already done … More I’m late! I’m late! For a very pop-cultural date!
The following contains: a) maybe some spoilers for Beasts of the Southern Wild b) no sarcasm whatsoever. I am not even kidding. None. And this statement is not sarcastic either. Thank you, to the girls behind me tonight at Beasts of the Southern Wild. I’ve seen it three times now, but this time, I got it. … More A little piece of a big universe
Why hello. It’s been a bit. I just returned from New York City, from an ingathering of Clarion classmates. Sam Miller and Carmen Machado read with our instructor Delia Sherman, and several other talented people, at an LGBTQ SFF event at Bluestockings bookstore in Manhattan, so a load of us flew out to see them. … More How to Conversation
Hello, internet. The writing progresses, despite the patent insanity of working two restaurant jobs at once. It amounts to a full time job and a half. Every day including weekends. But it keeps the bills paid and the groceries coming in. In the chinks of time between novelling, shuffling scenes in short stories, and dishing … More A Lump in the Throat
Well I said I would do it, so I am. Man of my word, all that. And not even a full 24 hours has elapsed since my return from the great Southern expedition. I rolled out of Smalltown™, Ohio early Friday morning and commenced gathering applications like fruit from various restaurants and coffeeshops. Friday night … More Well I said I was going to do it, so I am!
This is sort of goofy, but I feel like if I write it I will be more likely to actually follow up with the post I am about to promise to write. Louisville, KY is an awesome city. It’s a city of horses, restaurants, bourbon and beer. It is the city to which I will … More A blog post about a future blog post
Two years ago, in February, the Seed Savers Exchange catalogue arrived through the mail slot with a chilly breeze behind it. In the manner of winter-withered people, my mother and I flipped through it, soaking up the brightly colored, juicy-looking photographs of peppers and melons and hundreds of kinds of tomatoes. Long story short, we decided … More An Embarrassment of Riches
Yes, I meant to spell it that way. My last post was a very long time ago. I’m not even going to count the days, weeks, months, etc. For a while I thought I’d just give up on keeping a blog, but then all the other Clarion 2012 grads were posting their post-Clarion thoughts, and … More This whole is hard to climb out of
Lara Elena Donnelly 