March post round-up

It’s Certainly Been A Month.

A quick summary of the March blog posts (not including Patreon posts):

• Flyaway and arty publisher photos
• Welcome to Lauren Dixon’s new collection (cover reveal)
• Story update: Owl Abbas in Year’s Best
• Read and Seen — February 2020 (books, movies, art)
• Process post: Chapter opener for Finding Baba Yaga
• Failure is always an (entertaining) option (being bad at printing and collage)
• Writing news: story to Strange Horizons
• Suitable Careers for Readers
• Process post: Castle Charming pin
• Art/installation process: Mary Poppins and the Story Bank
• Making Things Manifest: Mock-ups and outlines
• Pin process: Tea & Sympathetic Magic
• Pursued by a (small) bear! (art by a Tiny Owl, based on an illustration)
• The Alternate Bear, or: Getting There By Whatever Means Necessary (addendum to the above)
• *Old maps (includes some art and writing and house-bound exercises)
• Book news: PW starred review for Flyaway!
• *Wild Things map workshop (includes some art and writing exercises)
• Making little things (small tasks)
• Using nature’s abhorrence of vacuums against itself (on making borders and boundaries to fill later)
• *Art process: The Darkest Part of the Forest (includes some art and writing exercises)
• Distance ed (lessons from School of the Air)
• *On making samplers (of various kinds) (learning and making)
• Flyaway news: Australian edition! (cover reveal!)
• Handsome and clever (a tiny illustrated story)
• Aurealis shortlist: Stray Bats
• *Once more, with feline (on styles and cats)
• Found a missing cat (pursuant to the previous)
• On notebooks: Questions and declarations (keeping things moving)
• Art imitating life imitating art imitating (awkward reference photos)
• April Calendar: The Go-Betweens (crows!)

*I’d been meaning to put up more of my art and writing games/exercises, and this seemed as good a time as any. There are new tags (writing exercise; art exercise) but they’re mostly the same posts. And since many of the other posts are about process anyway, you can use them as the basis for activities.