January 10, 2022 Goal Setting: Reflecting on 2021 and Planning for 2022 It’s the beginning of a new year and so, once again, I’ve been thinking about goal setting. At the start of 2021, I realised…
December 16, 2021 Lessons from 2021: Authorship, PhD Research, and Everything in Between I can’t believe it has been a year since I released Shifting Sands into the world! There have been a lot of ups and…
November 23, 2021 Fantasy Tropes – The Mentor It’s been a long time since I talked about fantasy tropes! So much of my life revolves around research right now – and my…
November 8, 2021 Social Performances and Different Stages: The Self Online Last month I talked about the self offline and the respective stages on which we perform for different audiences. Whether at work or at…
October 8, 2021 Social Performances and Different Stages: The Self Offline There are a number of different theories relating to identity. Some are more focused on our personal selves and others look at the public…
September 15, 2021 Worldbuilding Fantasy: Shifting Sands as a Case Study I can’t believe it’s only two days until the next wave of Shifting Sands arrives. If you need to catch-up, make sure to do…
August 30, 2021 The MBTI of Character: Nahlena It’s been a few months since I did a blog post that revolves heavily around Shifting Sands. A side-effect of my research life holding…
August 9, 2021 Reflection and Planning Time: Shifting Sands and PhD Research August 2021 Another late blog – I hope this doesn’t become a habit! I actually have about three half-drafted blog entries sitting in my saved pile…
July 19, 2021 Author Identity and Online Behaviour I’m quickly approaching a full three years of my PhD, meaning the next step is “write-up” year. My original write-up year plans involved editing…
July 5, 2021 Becoming a Writer: The Livejournal Days This project keeps making me reflect on who I am and how I got here. Maybe it’s seeing Shifting Sands through multiple perspectives? Or…
