Time to dust off the blog and announce that I’m miserably blocked. I haven’t written or edited any of my original fiction since late last year, when I had my short story, “It Should’ve Been You,” published in io9. I wrote that story over the course of roughly two weeks specifically for the website’s “Future of Death” fiction call coinciding with the week of Halloween. The pay rate was excellent and I lurk on Gizmodo’s blogs pretty much every weekday, so it was an easy decision to enter…except I didn’t expect to be chosen at all, let alone that I would be the only one chosen out of God only knows how many entries. The check I received is the most I’ve ever earned for my fiction, ever. I didn’t have the guts to read the comments section and I still don’t, but I received a lot of great feedback via social media.
You’d think that would’ve been the motivation I needed to write and submit even more, but health issues have been my priority since the beginning of the year.
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There is a never-ending war raging between writers and editors — writers say editors are constantly crushing their immaculate vision into generic slime and editors say writers are terrible at the most basic concepts of grammar. When we compare the difficulty of editing versus writing…who’s right? As someone who works as both 
