Blargle Splect: Writerly Musings & Blather

Featuring information for independent authors looking for guidance on marketing, editing and publishing their works; including tips on how best to use free resources and maintain motivation as you take your writing from hobby to profession.

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  • Leaving the Frog Pot

    Leaving the Frog Pot

    The author reflects on their time in rural Georgia, feeling alienated as a Pagan in a conservative community. Despite attempts to connect, they feel financially and emotionally drained. With safety concerns and a lack of opportunity, they decide to leave, highlighting their sense of isolation and urgency to escape their situation.

    Y. K. Greene

    September 15, 2025
    Living the Writing Life, Progress, Uncategorized
    backend bs, blah blah, blather, indie author, musings, writing
  • End of an Era

    End of an Era

    Today, I said goodbye to Whisper, my beloved cat, after her health declined due to kidney failure. Despite her struggles, she brought comfort during my tears. At 16/17 years old, her passing marked another loss in a tough time as I prepare to move again, feeling even more adrift.

    Y. K. Greene

    September 10, 2025
    Uncategorized
    family, fiction, life, love, writing
  • Well Look What the Cat Dragged In

    Well Look What the Cat Dragged In

    So, if you’ve been paying attention to the site, despite me not posting for several years, you’ve probably already noticed – I messed up. I’m busily trying to update everything and in the process I picked a theme that kind of broke the site a bit. There’s so much to say but where to begin?…

    Y. K. Greene

    June 20, 2025
    Uncategorized
  • We’ve Come, Once Again, To This

    I’ve decided that I want to move forward as if good things are actually coming, and stability will return. It just so happens that November is Nanowrimo and that competition has always been a great excuse for me to block out distractions and bang out some work…

    Y. K. Greene

    November 2, 2018
    Books, Eldritch Elysium, Goals, Living the Writing Life, Progress, Tasting Ash
    NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, Politics, What People Think I Do, writing
  • Pre-orders Are OPEN

    I’ve been hinting at this one for ages but it’s finally available for pre-order! If you’re a fan of my rare romances, then make sure to check out “When World’s Collide Pre-order” for another installment! This anthology features works by myself as well as Catrina Taylor, Heather Birchfield and RaeAnne Hadley.

    Y. K. Greene

    November 14, 2017
    Books, Goals, Living the Writing Life
    Aliens, anthology, pre-order, Romance, vampires
  • Constructive Criticism: What It Is and How to Give It

    When I went to college and majored in creative writing – this was an actual lesson we had to have at the beginning of the semester. Everything about it seemed pretty common sense but in order for all us tender young things to actually learn and progress rather than shrivel up on the vine, we…

    Y. K. Greene

    November 7, 2017
    Living the Writing Life
    blah blah, blogging, criticism, do better, helping hand, random, Review, Tips
  • Just the way shit goes…

    Almost as soon as I posted that the story was stalled and looking at a major gut, inspiration struck and I now have a concrete direction to take things in that shouldn’t be too drastic! I’ve still got a lot of work ahead of me but instead of looking at draining an ocean with a…

    Y. K. Greene

    September 12, 2017
    Uncategorized
  • Crisis of Conflict…

    I’ve been wracking my brain going through this rewrite and it was still horribly off. Time and again I’d have the thought that I loved this or that scene but I felt like Ash was leaning a bit to hard on this one character. Those thoughts eventually resolved themselves to “do I really need this…

    Y. K. Greene

    September 5, 2017
    Uncategorized
  • So… What’s Next?

    Am I really back? Yes I’m really back – at least until August when I gotta go back to the grind. What kind of goodies can you expect, now that I’m really really back? Well first up – I’m about as far along with “Tasting Ash” as I was before I went poof. There just…

    Y. K. Greene

    June 8, 2017
    Backend, Goals, Living the Writing Life, Progress, Telling the tale
    announcement, anthology, Belladonna Short, blah blah, random, Romance
  • Aaaand We’re Back!

    So it’s been forever and there’s a good reason for that, I recently returned to the world of day jobs and self loathing – and it almost killed me. That’s not sarcasm either, I had no less than three incidents of illness where I was afraid for my life in the last ten months or…

    Y. K. Greene

    June 6, 2017
    Backend, Books, Eldritch Elysium, Goals, Living the Writing Life, Progress, Tasting Ash, When To Pay
    announcement, blah blah, blogging, ebook, writing
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