Hi All! I haven’t chatted about my newsletter here. Rykaworld (link here and menu above) is a weekly blog/newsletter, where I chat about life as a writer and poet, or whatever else comes to my mind. This week, I’m chatting about getting ready from the Worldcon and Hugo Awards. But sometimes, I’ll talk about non-writer things […]
I just read an advert for smart pajamas. I do not want smart pajamas. Smart pajamas would tell me to put the phone away, stop making poor life choices, eat more cruciferous vegetables. I want stupid pajamas. Pajamas so stupid that they are willing to grow soft and old with me… that will listen to […]
While using Microsoft Word, I left my voice-to-text set to English, and my mic picked up the Japanese radio station that I was listening to. Here’s what resulted: today call you we get is there talk about the liturgy no it’s so another one is stretch I want to massage we don’t have to stand […]
When you want to put three dumplings in the soup, but an extra one comes out of the bag, so it’s now four dumplings, and now you have to add another dumpling because four is bad luck and now you have five dumplings in the soup and don’t want to eat five whole dumplings so […]
1. See the nice bitter melons* at the store, and think, “Wow, I should get some–they are healthy and I think I can prepare them well.” 2. Buy bitter melons and place them in fridge. 3, 4, 5. Open fridge, see bitter melons, and think, “Well, I am not exactly sure how to make these; […]
I came back from the AWP a couple of weeks ago. It’s about 12,000 writers descending onto a city, bringing with them stories and thoughts, a lot of ambition, and much much talent. This year, the city was Tampa, Florida. I was sharing a panel discussion with Tobi Harper and Quill Press, “Taking up the […]
This is an interview from 2012. I look back on this now… It’s only been five years, but what a ride it has been! I am so grateful. Right now, I am due to my last site being hacked, I am bringing my blog back (at least from 2013 or so) piece by piece. […]
Well, let’s try this again! So, yes, rebuilding this website has been an adventure. This is now the 4th time I am trying to get something up. In a way this is harder that writing a book. A book takes a while, but there, I know the syntax, the structure, and how to move items […]
Hi! It’s been kind of grindy these past few months. Except for some very close friends, I’ve been working on this novel. There were a lot of personal matters that sort of swallowed me up over the past two years, but they are finally clearing up. But now the novel is calling me full-force. It’s […]
(Dec-20 retrospective) I was trying to select my WordPress theme, and I ran into “Reykjavik.” It wasn’t the right theme for me, but it was funny that I could actually post pictures from Reykjavik onto the Reykjavik theme. It’s been a few months since I left Iceland, and I hope to go back in a […]