Hades 2 Has a Tone Problem Hades 2 Has a Tone Problem By Megan Cutler | June 8, 2026 | Comments 0 Comment I don’t pour hundreds of hours into many games anymore. The reality is, I just don’t have the time. I usually play games either in short, 1-3 hour sessions or just a few days a week. I certainly can’t log into any game that requires daily quests in order to keep up. So when I … Read More Read More
4 Things Every Professional Writer Needs to Know 4 Things Every Professional Writer Needs to Know By Megan Cutler | November 4, 2024 | Comments 0 Comment When I glance backward along the path I have walked as a writer, I often reflect that there are many things I wish I had known at the start of my journey. Every path through life involves a lot of hard-earned lessons. I don’t think any amount of preparation or research can prevent that. Still, … Read More Read More
One Year of Twitch Streaming Later One Year of Twitch Streaming Later By Megan Cutler | February 6, 2023 | Comments 0 Comment I started streaming on my personal Twitch channel on November 5th, 2021. It happened on a whim, a test to see if there would be any interest in sharing my writing sessions. Prior to that day, I did a handful of streams on my husband’s channel, largely relying on his audience to visit while I … Read More Read More
How I Ended Up as a Twitch Streamer How I Ended Up as a Twitch Streamer By Megan Cutler | May 23, 2022 | Comments 2 comments When the Covid 19 pandemic started in early 2020, my life changed in a dozen little ways. But as someone who already worked for herself from home and didn’t leave the house often, my daily routine didn’t change much. There were a lot of extra things to stress about, of course. But many of the … Read More Read More
An Infuriating and Frustrating Customer Service Trend An Infuriating and Frustrating Customer Service Trend By Megan Cutler | February 8, 2021 | Comments 4 comments I’ve noticed a somewhat disturbing trend lately. The only way to get a company’s customer service department to actually help me is to get mad on Twitter. In the years before my life aligned in a way that allowed me to write stories full time, I worked as an IT specialist doing inter-company support for … Read More Read More
What I Learned from Watching Gourmet Makes What I Learned from Watching Gourmet Makes By Megan Cutler | April 6, 2020 | Comments 0 Comment I recently found a series on Youtube called Gourmet Makes. The idea is that a professional pastry chef tries to recreate common snacks and candies while improving the taste to make them more gourmet. The show’s host, Claire, focuses on a couple different things during each project. First, she tries to replicate the appearance of … Read More Read More
It’s Time to Destroy Your Inner Gatekeepers It’s Time to Destroy Your Inner Gatekeepers By Megan Cutler | December 9, 2019 | Comments 4 comments My husband likes to listen to podcasts in the car. Recently he discovered the Revisionist History Podcast. It’s perfect for him since he’s a huge history nerd. I haven’t gotten a chance to listen to much of the podcast myself yet. But the first episode did happen to play in the background one morning while … Read More Read More
How Studying Plot Structure Makes Editing Smoother How Studying Plot Structure Makes Editing Smoother By Megan Cutler | August 26, 2019 | Comments 3 comments I’ve spent a lot of time talking about the nitty gritty, dirty nitpicking involved with the editing process. One of the first things people think of when they sit down to edit something they’ve written is proofreading and line editing. And it’s true that choosing the right words and making sure you have them in … Read More Read More
Can Science Actually Validate our Personal Experiences? Can Science Actually Validate our Personal Experiences? By Megan Cutler | August 5, 2019 | Comments 2 comments When my husband and I first got married, we lived in a small basement apartment. I was trying to immigrate to Canada at the time, so I couldn’t work. I hadn’t figured out my life yet (still not really a skill I’ve mastered), so I spent a lot of time sleeping in after my husband … Read More Read More
Writing is Editing So Editing is Writing Writing is Editing So Editing is Writing By Megan Cutler | June 10, 2019 | Comments 0 Comment Editing is an inescapable part of the writing process. People might try to debate it, but it can’t be denied. Lots of people think that editing just means going through your manuscript and looking for typos – or hiring someone to do it for you. But that’s only one small part of the editing process. … Read More Read More