I am naturally an upbeat person. I tend to want to have a good time, be silly, and dive into creativity. But 2020 has knocked me on my bottom. If you have been following this blog or my on social media, then you’re aware that I have frozen shoulder, or adhesive capsulitis. I have 24/7 …
Before the pandemic started (and my brain could words), I really enjoyed participating in Twitter writers chats. They’re pretty fun. Often, the first question asked is our name and the genre we write in. I almost always write something like this: Hi, I’m Cait (like cat). I’m a humorist who writes space opera with aliens …
So, my final word count was 12,042. It hasn't changed since my last update, but do I ever have a good reason for that! (Coming up in my next post, so stay tuned!) I had set a goal for 40,000 words, knowing it was really ambitious, but I wanted to prod myself a little. As …
Continue reading Camp NaNoWriMo Day 30: Why I Feel Like a Winner
It's been over a month since I've been inside a shop, and that was at my pharmacy as I signed a request for an urgent med refill. My husband and I are doing our best to be as safe as is possible during this pandemic outbreak. While I'm lucky to have him here with me …
Continue reading Trying to Navigate Through 50 Shades of Meh
Total word count: 10,924 (4, 847 during Camp NaNoWriMo) You know, my writing of space opera books has been a bit of a weird experience. I wrote Life in the ’Cosm while in intense physical pain, barely able to walk or stand. I wrote The Stealth Lovers while experiencing the worst panic attacks of my …
Hey, lovely humans who follow this blog! As of this date, the City of Ottawa is pretty much slowed right down. It's weird: while I'm typing, I can hear birds singing their flirty songs. The air is getting warmer, and the snow is melting. It seems so peaceful. You'd never guess there was a pandemic …
Continue reading We’re in a pandemic situation. This is how I’m doing.
If you’ve been following my Twitter posts for the past several weeks, you know how much I had been looking forward to launching The Stealth Lovers and Nothing Without Us at Glad Day Bookshop in Toronto. I’d heard amazing things about this bookstore for years from my author friends and was honoured Glad Day would …
Continue reading Last weekend, I fell in love with Glad Day Bookshop!
I like making people laugh—it's my thing and has been ever since I was a little girl. It was an easy decision to make my "brand" about being a humorous weirdo because IT ME! Humour has always served me well, whether I'm weeping from laughter at comedies and comedians, coping with dire situations, or just …
Yup, I told you I have a staunch rule about NaNoWriMo: If I feel it's going to adversely affect my health, I'm going to stop. So, I'm stopping, but only the NaNo pace and schedule, not the writing. The good news is that even after only a few days, I'm exciting about writing Life in …
My neurodiverse brain tends to pick up on patterns, whether they are patterns on objects or patterns of behaviour. And for the last several months, I've been somehow more attuned to an increasing number of posts where authors are just metaphorically punching themselves repeatedly in their own faces. Some are people I know, and others …
Continue reading Why I’m so done with writers putting themselves down—me included.
Cait Gordon—author and editor 