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I'm looking for someone to exchange writing with and provide honest, constructive feedback on plot, worldbuilding, and character development. I am trying to get some of my short stories published, and I am also considering both traditional and self-publishing for my longer WIPs. I would also like to develop more of an online presence as an author. I would love to chat with anyone who has experience in these areas, or who is trying to navigate them as well, so that we can help each other learn!
I write short and flash fiction with fantastical or surreal elements, as well as novels set in sci-fi and fantasy realms.
I'm currently outlining and revising my fantasy novel about two women from an isolated city, surrounded by fog and covered in moss, who discover that their home was created using magic from another world entirely--in order to escape the destructive potential of that very same magic. I've been refining this project thanks to the help of a few first readers (most of whom I found right here!), and by the end of this year, I hope to complete a fifth draft that I can confidently send to beta readers.
I have three other WIPs in early stages:
- A science fiction quadrilogy about interdimensional bounty hunters, a deadly invention that causes entire universes to collapse, and a love story that transcends space and time.
- A YA novel about a charismatic villain and obnoxious hero, forced to be roommates due to the nature of their mystical powers, and narrated by the villain's incompetent sidekick.
- A satirical space opera about an aloof astronaut who gets caught up in a plot to overthrow the ruling dictator of Pluto.
I enjoy reading and critiquing pretty much any genre, but there is some subject matter that I prefer to avoid: extreme horror/gore, erotica, and most stories that feature sexual assault or gendered violence.
The Night Circus
The Starless Sea
The Lord of the Rings
The Chronicles of Narnia
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Anything by Jules Verne or Jane Austen
Frankenstein
The Amateurs by Liz Harmer
A Series of Unfortunate Events
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Handmaid's Tale
The Poppy War trilogy
Babel
The Priory of the Orange Tree
The Ten Thousand Doors of January
The Once and Future Witches
Project Hail Mary
(This is a long list, and it could easily be longer - but I'll stop it there)
I'm a lifelong writer and aspiring author who is slowly falling in love with writing again after a childhood/teenagehood of reckless literary abandon. I recently graduated university as an English major, and I'm currently trying to balance my creative writing with a day job as a technical writer. I truly believe that stories are one of the best things we can contribute to the world, and I want to both read and tell as many as I can!
