In my capstone post on my favorite life improvements in speculative fiction, today I'm talking about community.

Picking up from my last post on my favorite improvements to daily life in fiction, this time I'm talking about housing and sanitation.

I'm taking a break from my Favorite Things series of posts to share something else I love (and that is relevant to this week): goal-setting.

In this post on my favorite things in fiction, I'm going to talk about improvements to daily life, particularly in sleep and food.

In this latest installment in the series of posts about my favorite things in fiction, I'm going to talk about paragons.

In my next post on my favorite things to read and write in fiction, here are the kinds of villains I see as being a (cough) necessary evil.

One of my favorite things in fiction is a soft heroine, and here's what I mean by that.

I can't think of much to write about my fondness for introspection, so this will actually be a shorter post. (Oh, the irony.)

What fiction settings do I find the most compelling?

The last post was more about my conflict with romance, so here's a bonus post, full of the happy romance specifics I love to read and write.

In this next installment about my favorite things to read and write, I talk about my conflicted love for romance.

In which I talk about the quintessential fantasy aspect: magic. Except what KINDS do I like? That's the question!

In this post, I unpack why I cringe at the question "What do you like to do?" and how I resolve to stop.

I have confronted each of my fears, coming away stronger and wiser. Reflecting on those times is giving me the confidence to face my future.

Time to consider my final fears: success and hate. You'll soon see why they belong together in this post.

My second fear is of criticism, or critical feedback. It's a fear, just like failure, that I faced as soon as I shared my work with someone.

Why am I always afraid to share my writing? Here's the first (but also the least) reason: fear of failure.

My final project in a creative writing class was an essay on my writer's aesthetic. Here it is. Consider it my writer's manifesto.

Given all the ways to be creative, as a profession or as a hobby, what draws me to write?

So I decided to start a blog. But what kind?