Liz Cultivates | L.M. Fern

Category: Musings

  • “I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going.”

    This quote really hit home tonight. “I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel…

  • Writing Day Success!

    Well, Saturday was my big day to sit at home, lock myself in a room, and write all day. The goal was to finish two chapters of my novel and write as much as possible, hopefully bringing me closer to finishing my novel. I snuggled up in bed with two…

  • From Narnia, With Love: Thoughts for the New Year

    It’s a winter wonderland outside my house right now. Winter is my favorite season for numerous reasons, beginning and ending with my love of hot chocolate and warmth. That probably sounds a bit confusing — if I love being warm, why would I pick winter? Easy. The kind of warmth…

  • Reading List #1 — DUNE

    All right. The semester is over (has been for a while, actually) and I survived. Now it’s time to get reading. Thus begins studying in earnest to acquire my degree. Are you, avid Readers, ready? Because I’m not. Here we go anyway. The first book I’m focusing on from my…

  • Novel Excerpt — The Greatstorm

    Here’s another excerpt from my steampunk/dark fantasy novel, BLOOD OF THE WINDMAKER. The story revolves around a woman named Katrya Millor, who owns a flying ship called the Arienna, the only way to get around — or make money — in a mountainous world. She aspires to become the captain of…

  • NEAT. Issue 2 is LIVE!

    Exciting news! Issue 2 is NOW LIVE over at the website for NEAT. TM Keesling and I are pumped about this one. Check it out and read, comment, review! Our theme this time around was beginnings, endings, and beginnings that come from endings. That resulted in stories across the board…

  • “I Feel Weird This Week,” or, “I Figured Out Why Writers Drink So Much” — A Story by Liz

    I’ve been working this week on a story I started about a month ago (exactly a month ago, actually), the first draft of which is here. After I wrote that draft for the Trifecta Challenge, I realized there is something more here to explore, something I’ve been trying to write…

  • Checking In . . .

    . . . from the perpetual place of not-deadness. So you still have to keep reading my stuff for just a little longer anyway. Just wanted to update you on a few things that have been going on lately. I’ve been exceptionally busy, which may or may not be an…

  • Story of the Week #11 — “With Cat” by Kelly Magee and Carol Guess

    This week’s story is up on Word Riot and is a piece by two authors I have written about before. “With Cat” seems to be a continuation of “With Human,” or at least takes place in that same headspace  that develops a critique on the relationship between childbearing and identity.…

  • Story of the Week #10 — “Morning Aroma” by Noah C. Patterson

    In honor of Halloween and of my finding this wonderful little mag/blog MicroHorror, I decided to make one of the entries in the 2013 Contest our Story of the Week. MicroHorror is a neat website run by Nathan Rosen that has striven to be “the Web’s premier free repository for…