The Imagined Worlds of Michelle Yvonne Merrill

michelleyvonnemerrill.com used to have this content, focusing on speculative fiction, creative non-fiction, writing and fandom.  It is now housed at

michelleyvonnemerrilldotcom.wordpress.com

• Carminative APRIL 1, 2013
• The Apocalypse of Eight Thousand Stings DECEMBER 21, 2012
• Singing Under the Sky DECEMBER 19, 2012
• Joss vs. Zomney OCTOBER 30, 2012
• Best Google Doodle Ever! SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
• Gawkin at Gawgeous Gams AUGUST 28, 2012
• Us and Them and Allopatric Enculturation JULY 13, 2012
• Great Ape Haiku JULY 8, 2012
• Jurassic Avenue JUNE 11, 2012
• One-liner: Disarray APRIL 8, 2012
• One-liner: Wheeling with Uncertainty MARCH 5, 2012
• One-liner: Ineffectual Scolding MARCH 5, 2012
• One-Liner: Boys Will Be Boys FEBRUARY 23, 2012
• One-liner: How many birthdays? FEBRUARY 20, 2012
• One-Liner: Salt & Pepper FEBRUARY 12, 2012
• One-liner: Pedaling JANUARY 22, 2012
• My NoWriMo Progress Report JANUARY 16, 2012
• One-liner: Road Apples JANUARY 16, 2012
• Sky Dragon JANUARY 2, 2012
• One-liner: Politics JANUARY 2, 2012
• My Plot Planner JANUARY 1, 2012
• One-liner: Annoyingly Content DECEMBER 31, 2011
• One-Liner: Dazed and Confused DECEMBER 30, 2011
• One-Liner: Vulnerable and Inadequate DECEMBER 29, 2011
• One-Liner: Snoring DECEMBER 28, 2011
• One-Liner of the Week: Hopelessly Frantic DECEMBER 4, 2011
• A One-Liner a Week NOVEMBER 26, 2011
• The Bechdel Test vs Patrick Rothfuss NOVEMBER 15, 2011
• The Trouble with Twilight NOVEMBER 1, 2011
• Why so many vampires? SEPTEMBER 30, 2011
• “Just Like Batman:” Geek Art and Our Place in History | The Mary Sue SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
• Mindful Recycling and Waste SEPTEMBER 10, 2011
• Exposition about the northern enclave SEPTEMBER 4, 2011
• Smart Pop Books — Angel by the Numbers AUGUST 27, 2011
• I Write Like… WHO? AUGUST 21, 2011
• The Prayer of Gratitude for Recovered Species AUGUST 15, 2011
• Students, Apprentices, Teachers, Mentors & Scholars AUGUST 9, 2011
• Pitchapalooza! AUGUST 1, 2011
• Jane Espenson on Geek Girls, etc. JULY 26, 2011
• Serena’s Birthday Presents JULY 22, 2011
• Greetings Earthlings! JULY 22, 2011

I started this blog because I was writing a speculative fiction novel… no, at least two different ones, but that’s been on hold for a while now.   This second blog was/will be a place where I would talk about what I’m writing, how the process is and isn’t working for me, and so forth: my “official” “author” site.

Who are my influences?  My heroes have always been… well, y’know, folx like this (in roughly the order I encountered their work):

• Madeline L’Engle
• Frank Herbert
• Harlan Ellison
• Ursula LeGuin
• John Brunner
• Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
• Douglas Adams
• David Brin
• Los Bros Hernandez
• Connie Willis
• Dan Simmons
• Kim Stanley Robinson
• Christopher Moore
• Margaret Atwood
• Joss Whedon

I know I’ll never have the wit and craft that any of these folx do, but I’m trying not to let that get in my way.

 

Please, please, please let me know what you think.  I welcome feedback about ideas, plots, characters, style…

And yes, I’m also that Michelle Y. Merrill, the one with the Ph.D.