Rachel Shubin

Rachel Shubin writes fiction and poetry from her porch swing in Portland, OR. When she's not writing, she sings 80's power ballads at karaoke and drinks whisky sours with too many cherries.

1.9K+ subscribers

Rachel Shubin's Purple Playground

By Rachel Shubin

Poetry, new chapters of The Sooth (my current work-in-progress), writing meltdowns, whatever else my pen spits out.

Rachel Shubin

Oct 25

Today I went to do my favorite boxing workout using the Supernatural app on the Oculus (a VR headset my brother bought me for Christmas). It's been a few months since I used it.

Things went poorly.

The Oculus makes me update the software, which takes ten minutes.
Then it needs the right controller batteries changed because they are too low for the controller to update.
After I finish and put everything away, it tells me the left controller battery is low.
Finally the update completes, so I go to…

Rachel Shubin

Oct 14

Rachel Shubin's Purple Playground

Running a bit behind

Or create an account

Rachel Shubin

Oct 8

Hmm, yes, I appreciate this. Similar to the Snowflake Method I usually go with after boring myself to oblivion as a plotter and flaming out by the end of Act I as a pantser. Herding feels a bit less predictable than Snowflake, which has that fractal feel to it. Hmm, very good.

G. M. (Mark) Baker

Oct 7

I think of myself not as a pantser or a plotter, but as a herder. The goal is to get the character into a pen at the other side for the field. Character is why the character does not want to go into the pen and all the particular ways they will attempt to avoid going there. Plot is the dog that cuts them off every time they try to move a…

danielmcinerny.substack.com/p/the-comic-muse-oc…