• Inspiration, October 2

    How about a dress? I love this so hard. I want to have it and wear it every day of my life. Somehow, someway, I am going to put my character in this dress.

  • Inspiration, October 1

    How about this? I’m really feeling the trains lately. I’m knee-deep (so not very deep) in world-building at the moment, and I want my country to be advanced enough to have a train system that goes throughout the land – most notably, it is an elevated train that runs above the city where my main…

  • Music of the Day 

    Just realized something. I’ve already said Fall Out Boy seems to come out with a new album every time I do something important in my life. From Under the Cork Tree – Started high school / started listening to Fall Out Boy (that’s an event in itself) Infinity On High – ….Prom? (this is the…

  • Inspiration for my new project . . .

    Here’s an old picture of Manchester London Railway Station (now Piccadilly Railway Station).

  • Well, I did a thing.

    I did an exciting thing.

  • Updates from Liz: Chicago Edition

    I wrote an update for NEAT. about the things I’ve been up to here in Chicago. Here ya go! Updates from Liz: Chicago Edition.

  • Writing as stretching a muscle, and other egregious metaphors

    Hello hello everyone. I had somewhat of an epiphany the other day about my own writing and wanted to share. If you read my post about spring, you probably remember me talking about how I had written a poem and was feeling generally positive about my personal writing even though I have been doing nothing…

  • Story acceptance!

    I feel like I can finally talk about this, because I have a date for when my fiction finally gets printed and I get to hold my own words in my own two hands.

  • Story of the Week #14 — “Elegy in Running Water” by Alex Friedman

    I have always loved Alex’s work. Right away when we began workshop together, when I was still a scared undergraduate in my head, I noticed that this guy wrote the kinds of stuff I like to read: the weird stuff, like watercolor dragons and alien flamingos. This guy has an imagination. His work stood out…

  • NEAT. Goes Dancing at the Cabaret

    Don’t forget that NEAT. is accepting submissions for Issue 8! Our theme this quarter is cabaret. I want fun, flirty, fast-paced. I think our diverse submission pool is going to give it to me. Ooooh I can’t wait to read these subs. View our submission guidelines. Read up on the previous issues to get a feel for what…