I had an ephiphany of metacognition about my own writing processes, thanks to a chat over Habits of Mind.

This November through January I am going public with my writing progress and plans. The overall objective is to (almost) complete the first draft of my novel and backstrap the outline. Supplemental writing in short story form is also part of this season.

I joined up for a couple of the novel writing November events which have replaced the now defunct NaNoWriMo website event.

A personal post on why I decided to embrace multiple passions on this website.

In Part 2a of Talking Genre I list some (not all, but most) tropes of writing cosy fantasy.

An unexpectedly fast-track communal art project lead to the need to take shortcuts to go from panic to done.

As I’m writing a fiction project with cosy creatures, and also exploring some art play, I’ve found a few hashtags and art challenges which add to the storyworld.

Over the last year or so cosy (with spicy and clean) are trending terms used for genre or content style. These terms are explained in this post.

My first watercolour illustration - how I did it, and why

Some definitions and differences between Fantasy and Magical Realism genres. And which am I writing?

Moving from longform to extremely shortform stories has been a challenge. Here are some formula or templates for short fiction.

Introduction Post for michellethompsonwrites.com