Victoria Feistner

Hiatus

*Insert Subplot Here is going on hiatus until April 2017

Things I Wish People Would Ask Me at Parties #4: Gillian Street

“… or “Have I read anything you’ve written?” (the vagaries of getting a play published aside, when was the last time you picked up a play at your local library or bookstore to read?)”

Writing to Music

I listen to music when I write. A must. Partly it helps to set the tone of the scene(s) that I am working on; mostly it’s a way to shut my brain up so that I can work.

Best Intentions

I’m hoping to be more on task next week. Fingers crossed.

NaNoWriMo and Other Plans

Life had other plans, as it always does. So when NaNo swung around this year, I rolled up my sleeves, took that deep breath and… ran headfirst into a wall.

Elections and Empathy

Writers have a duty, not just to write what they want to read but to create worlds that they want to see, and to shine a light on the darker aspects of human nature, whether fictional or not.

Things I Wish People Would Ask Me at Parties #3: Laura DeHaan

“Not ‘where do you get your ideas?’, which is very broad and fairly useless and mostly lends itself to snarky comebacks the writer thinks of ten minutes later (or already has prepared. Mine is, “Anywhere I can get them, baby.”)”

On The Emotional Side of Submitting

I having started submitting again. Tentatively.

Things I Wish People Would Ask Me at Parties #2: Grace Seybold

“Essentially they’re asking me what the writing is doing for my life: what I’m earning from it, where it’s taking me, what I get out of it. Which is fair, because those are generic questions that can be applied to most jobs, and when you’re talking to strangers, generic questions are easiest.”

NaNo 2016 Prep

I get a little *squee* of joy whenever I think about NaNo. It’s because of the camaraderie. I’ve done other NaNo-esque months on my own (last June I did 70K on Embers in a month) but they are never the same. More of a slog. Frustrating and lonely. Running a marathon on one’s own is not the same […]