by MK England | Aug 24, 2015 | Uncategorized
Okay, Imma do the thing! This year I’m participating in #PitchWars, a contest for unpublished, un-agented writers with a complete and polished manuscript to share with the world. You can learn more about it here. Everyone who’s submitted is going mad...
by MK England | Jul 22, 2015 | Prompts, Writing Groups
Summer has eaten me alive, as it always does to public librarians working in youth services, but I always make sure I have the time for my bimonthly writing group meetings. I’m the co-coordinator of my local group, along with crit partner extraordinaire Lisen Minetti,...
by MK England | Jun 16, 2015 | Personal, Questions Answered, Reading, Recs, Short Stories
(UPDATE: I’ve chosen to delete the recs in this post because it was from 2015 and I would now anti-recommend some of these books! Maybe one day I’ll write a new one.) So, someone over on my fandom blog decided to take me up on my offer of personalized book...
by MK England | May 27, 2015 | Editing, Personal, Writing Process
Every writer’s worst nightmare is a dead computer. Okay, maybe not every writer. Every writer who writes on a computer. Every writer who isn’t quite as diligent about backing up their work as they should be. Every writer who has a slowly-declining laptop and knows the...
by MK England | May 14, 2015 | Fanfiction, Publishing
Last week I talked a bit (okay, a lot) about the synergy between my life as a writer of original works and my life in fandom. There’s more overlap and interplay between the two than you might think, and they’re both essential to my life and creative health. There are...
