In June of this year, I wrote a blog post here at Skolion on how anxiety affects me as a reader. But the fact that I’m a writer is what has shaped…
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Reading while anxious
I’ve always been an anxious person, but it was only in 2020 that I learned about Anxiety with a capital “A”. I’d lost the dog of my heart after a long illness…
How to be a great beta reader for a bad book
Here’s a topic that keeps coming up in my writing circles: A friend has asked you to read their book. They want some writing feedback. You agree, because, why wouldn’t you? Writers…
Where visual art and creative writing meet part 2
In my previous article, “Where Visual Art and Creative Writing Meet” the projects I described were equally balanced between visual art and writing. Some of the stories came out of drawings or…
Where visual art and creative writing meet
I have no formal training in creative writing but I do have a great deal of training in visual art — I completed a degree in fine art and an advanced diploma…
Is science fiction a dangerous lie?
We already have a self-contained, self-sustaining habitat, and one that works beautifully. Our planet Earth. The idea of escaping from the mess we’re making and setting up shop elsewhere in the universe is seductive but ultimately harmful.