TIED TOGETHER: A SHORT F/F ROMANCE
Written in a moment of longing, or a true account preserved by those who knew the crew of the Night Wind? Either way, it remains the most enduring romances in Concordian lore...
LET THE SPOOKFEST BEGIN!
Hej, Messmate! Welcome to The Resilience where we’re about to embrace the darker days and longer nights of the season with enough spookalicious tales, trivia, and activities to make a night on a ghost ship seem like a pleasure cruise in comparison! Last year, we stretched our Spookfest all the…
CRITIQUE & REVIEWS: NOT ALL FEEDBACK IS VALID
Hej Writer, do you know that not all feedback is valid? I can’t stress this enough, so I’ll say it again: Not all feedback is valid! We’re often told that feedback is the key to growth, but what happens when it pulls us in all directions? Criticism can feel overwhelming,…
CRITIQUE & REVIEWS: WHEN TO PAY ATTENTION
Hej Writer, It’s time for our third talk about critique and reviews, and today I’m going to start with a question: Do you know when you need to pay attention to negative feedback? And, by extension, when you should just ignore it? As writers, we tend to pour ourselves into…
CRITIQUE & REVIEWS: DON’T BE A DICK!
Hej Writer, It’s time for our second talk about critique and reviews, and today I want to address an issue that, sadly, keeps getting worse: How we treat each other when our tastes and opinions differ. Once upon a time I used to love reading the reviews in The Sunday…
CRITIQUE & REVIEWS: DOs AND DON’Ts FOR CRITICS
Hej Writer, have ever you been a critique partner? Maybe a member of a writing group? Or, my personal nightmare, had friends and/or family ask you to give them feedback on something they wrote? I’ve written a series of articles on dealing with criticism, but it was a long time…
DID YOU SAY IMPOSTOR SYNDROME?
Hej Writer, do you ever feel like a bit of a fraud? Like you’re not a “real” author? Maybe you feel like you don’t deserve the sales, the glowing reviews, or even the likes you get? Perhaps you find yourself comparing your work to others and feeling like a literary…
STRUGGLING WITH SOCIAL MEDIA? YEAH, ME TOO…
I've tried to think of ways to get back into that headspace that made socials my happy place in the pre-Elon days, but nothing has worked.
CAPTAIN’S QUILL: NEW TIDES – SAME OLD SHIP
You can’t hang your navigator's hat on the opinions of people who earned theirs riding an inflatable flamingo in a...
CAPTAIN’S QUILL: ANY PORT IN A STORM?
You can’t hang your navigator's hat on the opinions of people who earned theirs riding an inflatable flamingo in a...