Writing – Page 55 – Jonathon Mast: Author

Bite-Size Worlds

We all want a new earth. That’s why we read fiction, after all: We want to experience something that isn’t the earth we live in here. We want different relationships or different cultures or just the joy of discovering something that isn’t here. I have a really cool way of visiting lots of different worldsContinue reading “Bite-Size Worlds”

Submit Again

In 2003, Marvel Comics established an initiative called Tsunami Comics. They released a number of series all at once, including Mystique, Runaways, Inhumans, Emma Frost, and I’m probably forgetting a few. I remember complaining at the time that it was like they were throwing a bunch of stuff at the wall to see what wouldContinue reading “Submit Again”

Not a Writing Vacation

So I didn’t write a single word on vacation. I’d like a writing vacation, where the goal is to just… write. But for the last two weeks I have written nada. It was not a useless vacation in the least. I got to visit my wife’s great-grandfather on his hundredth birthday. I got to visitContinue reading “Not a Writing Vacation”

Writing Vacation

Lock me up; just leave me a word processor, all right? We’re going on vacation soon, and I’m looking forward to it. I get to spend a chunk of vacation with family that I honestly do enjoy spending time with. I get to spend a chunk of time with friends I haven’t seen in years.Continue reading “Writing Vacation”

False Dilemma

Choose one: You can either have creativity or you can have mental health. That’s what I wrote about a month ago. It really seemed that was the choice that was laid out before me. I had started taking medication for my depression, and my creativity faded. I’d seen it happen with others, so I wasn’tContinue reading “False Dilemma”