You Should Love What You Do But that Won’t Make it Easy You Should Love What You Do But that Won’t Make it Easy By Megan Cutler | October 13, 2025 | Comments 0 Comment I try never to shy away from big topics when they come up on stream. Especially where the craft of writing is involved. The more we talk about our processes and our struggles, the easier it is for new writers to find their feet and gain their balance. I certainly wish I had a forum … Read More Read More
2025’s Writing Update 2025’s Writing Update By Megan Cutler | September 29, 2025 | Comments 0 Comment It’s that time again! Here’s the post where I remember to write about the thing I actually spend all of my time doing. Plus how it happens to be going so far this year. Knowing how often to blog about my projects is challenging. I try not to write about writing every week. (Though for … Read More Read More
The Science of Liminal Space The Science of Liminal Space By Megan Cutler | September 15, 2025 | Comments 0 Comment One of the things my Winds of Chaos guest character Yfema is best known for is her obsession with liminal space. She has a propensity for jumping between worlds and being aware of anachronisms. So it makes a certain amount of sense that she knows a touch about alternate dimensions and astral projection. (Or at … Read More Read More
I’ve Reached My 40th Year and it Feels Weird I’ve Reached My 40th Year and it Feels Weird By Megan Cutler | August 11, 2025 | Comments 0 Comment When I was young, every time we played pretend, I always chose to be 18. I can’t tell you why, because I don’t know. But at the time it seemed like the perfect mix of adulthood and youth. At 18, I knew I would be able to move out on my own. I would be … Read More Read More
The Cycle of Long-Running Shows Raising their Stakes (A Follow Up) The Cycle of Long-Running Shows Raising their Stakes (A Follow Up) By Megan Cutler | July 28, 2025 | Comments 0 Comment Never in the history of this blog have I written a follow-up so fast. Just a few short weeks ago, I asked whether or not the constant raising of stakes serves long-running TV shows. And almost as if the universe was trying to answer, I’ve discovered an example that so strongly fits my premise, I … Read More Read More
Should Long TV Shows Stop Raising Their Stakes? Should Long TV Shows Stop Raising Their Stakes? By Megan Cutler | June 9, 2025 | Comments 1 comment I’m relatively new to the idea of comfort shows. When I was younger, I never really watched anything over and over. Usually it was music that accompanied me endlessly. I definitely had several comfort albums for any given situation. In recent years, my comfort show has become whatever I happen to be watching when I … Read More Read More
How to Know When You Should Leave a Game Table How to Know When You Should Leave a Game Table By Megan Cutler | May 12, 2025 | Comments 0 Comment I’ve participated in a lot of conversations lately regarding toxic relationships. And they’re always difficult discussions, not least because they involve staring into the face of some difficult truths. The fact is, the types of toxic relationships are as numerous and varied as relationships in general. Because any time you interact with a person or … Read More Read More
How Writing a Novel is Like Baking a Cake How Writing a Novel is Like Baking a Cake By Megan Cutler | April 14, 2025 | Comments 0 Comment Everything is cake nowadays right? Well writing a novel is a lot like making a layer cake. I’ve used a lot of metaphors to talk about writing. The one that crops up most often is that writing and publishing is a lot like a mountain. If you look at the whole thing from the start, … Read More Read More
How I Learned to Boldly Embrace My Crafting Mistakes How I Learned to Boldly Embrace My Crafting Mistakes By Megan Cutler | March 31, 2025 | Comments 0 Comment I spent a significant amount of my life avoiding certain activities because I was nervous about messing up. Maybe this is one of the reasons why they say ‘perfection is the enemy of good.’ If you’re afraid to try something just because you won’t do it right the first time, you miss out on a … Read More Read More
A Long Awaited Cross Stitch Update A Long Awaited Cross Stitch Update By Megan Cutler | February 10, 2025 | Comments 0 Comment During the pandemic, I returned to an old hobby – cross stitching. I’m still not entirely sure why I originally set the practice aside, nor why I suddenly decided to pick it up again. I guess the need to fill time causes us to dredge up even the dustiest of our old hobbies. After the … Read More Read More