Missing Magic at PNWA 2025
I recently returned to the conference that launched my writing career, but found that nostalgia wasn’t what it used to be. Read More …
Category: Lindsay’s Musings
Changing my Focus After Losing Two Months of Writing
Now that I’ve had a few days to process my grief, I’ve started to think about how to use this loss as an opportunity to pivot toward something I had been avoiding without realizing it. Read More …
I Lost Months of Work — Now What?
I went to open one of my current short story drafts for my upcoming anthology. It was gone. The story was gone. Its folder was gone. The entire collection of my writing was gone. Read More …
How I Feel After Completing a 25-Year-Old First Draft
It started as a childhood game of make-believe. I’d go into the forest near my family home (usually in the rain) and would make up an ongoing story for myself involving a sprawling epic of adventure and magic in worlds of my own imagination. The Read More …
The Universal Storytelling of “A Christmas Carol”
It’s Christmas time, and that means that the Schopfer home is filled with the signs of the season. A tree that has taken over the living room, holiday music echoes from several rooms at once, and every evening there are showings of all our favorite Read More …
The Best Season for Writing
Autumn has always been a special time for me. Living in the beautiful Pacific Northwest, I’m surrounded by green for the majority of the year. I love the coolness of green, but for one month there’s an explosion of different colors around my home. Reds, Read More …
The Best Book-Selling Event I’ve Ever Had
Last weekend, I went to the Rose City Comic Con in Portland, Oregon as a vendor to sell my books and some related merchandise. This was by far my biggest event yet, with tens of thousands of attendees and hundreds of competing vendors. I did Read More …
Five Things I Learned While Writing The Adventures of Keltin Moore
It’s been over ten years since I first started writing my series about the adventures of a professional monster hunter. With the recent release of The Hunter’s Apprentice as the fourth installment in the series, I thought I’d take a little time to reflect on Read More …
The Style of Hellboy Covers a Multitude of Sins
I recently finished reading all six volumes of the collected Hellboy library editions as well as the complete Hellboy in Hell compilation, and as a longtime fan of the character and this series, I have come to a difficult conclusion: Mike Mignola is a terrible Read More …
The Writer’s Struggle to Read for Pleasure
One of the best known tips for writers is to be well-read. This has been said hundreds of ways by hundreds of authors, poets, and lecturers. Perhaps one of the best known variants comes from Stephen King: ““If you don’t have time to read, you Read More …
