Author Archives: Theodora Goss

No, of course I didn’t actually take a day off. I spent a good portion of it writing, and will spend another portion of it writing later tonight. But I did take a couple of hours off to do some … Continue reading →

I know, it’s Friday, so I should write a chapter of the Shadowlands serial. But I’m so tired tonight that I can’t write fiction. I’m not sure why non-fiction is so much easier for me to write, but it is. … Continue reading →

I think a significant amount of one’s happiness depends on small pleasures. I was at home today, working on a story, and I thought I would document some of the small pleasures I gave myself throughout the day. Because I … Continue reading →

Once upon a time, by which I mean in 2005, Jeff VanderMeer wrote an essay called “The Romantic Underground.” It’s about an imaginary literary movement, or rather non-movement, because the defining characteristic of the Romantic Underground is that all of … Continue reading →

I’m in the forest of deadlines. Not lost in it, because I have specific markers, specific tasks I need to accomplish that will lead me out of the forest. But I will be in the forest at least until the … Continue reading →

I’ve had a feeling today that I sometimes get when I’m tired, as though part of me were missing. It’s a Herbert the Alligator feeling, I suppose. As though I were incomplete. What it makes me think of, since my … Continue reading →

I’ve written before about writing a thousand words a day, every day. (Yes, any sort of writing will do. A thousand words of anything, as long as it really is writing. Do tweets count? I’m not sure tweets count.) Someone, … Continue reading →