The Best Life Advice I’ve Ever Heard
It’s Okay to Feel How You Feel
Life as a Dream, Life as a Fairy Tale
The People Who are No Longer Here
10 Things I Wish I’d Learned 10 Years Ago
Problem Competition: Who is Worse Off?
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast, or How to Have an Exciting Life
On Being an Artist:
The Pursuit of Excellence, or How Becoming Awesome Takes More Than 30 Days
What does it mean to be an artist?
On Grief/Death:
There Will Never Be Enough Time
Grief Does Not Fit Into Small Boxes
On Purple Nails, Death, and Falling Down a Lot
We Need to Do Better When Dealing with Death
Searching for Words when Confronted by Grief
Feminism/Gender Issues:
On Entitlement and the Friend Zone
A Highly Intelligent Woman Speaks Out
Strong Female Characters Can Still Screw Up, Get Upset, and Cry
Sexual Harassment: Not Something to Just “Get Over”
A Note from the People-Pleasing Feminist Who Doesn’t Hate Men
Let’s Kick Self Loathing Where It Hurts
Assertiveness: An Intermediate Guide
What It Means to be a People Pleaser
But wait. Isn’t perfectionism a GOOD thing?
SF/F and Books:
Why Star Wars is my Favorite Movie
In Which I Watch Star Trek for the First Time
Amy’s List of Books by POC Authors
On Making Lists of Great Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels
Not a Con Report, or Advice for the Convention Newbie
On Writing:
I Know It When I See It: YA Voice
Thoughts on Being Professional
YA or Adult? How To Tell Them Apart
So You Have a Writer Friend…Don’t Panic
Pre-professionals: the Difference Between Musicians and Writers
How Writing Has Changed My Brain
The ABC Trifecta of Writing: Art, Business, Craft
If you want to write YA, please read it too
The Backbone Project, 2011:
The Backbone Project: Help Me Become Less Wishy-Washy
You are Not a Weenie if a Critique Makes You Cry
The Teetotaler Manifesto, or Why I Don’t Drink
Backbone Project: Finding Community in Difference
Social Media:
Social Media: the Scapegoat for Loneliness
Privacy, Social Shifts, and the Internet
Social Media is NOT about Sales
Divisions of Sharing: Private, Personal, Professional
When the Personal is Important
Social Media: Do What You Love (or at least like)
The Practical Free Spirit 
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‘Best in blog’ … What a great idea!!!
Thanks! I read about it, and I had to do it. Reminds me I should probably update it at some point, though. 🙂
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