Lily Chang © 2023 Hello! Sorry about the long hiatus. I’ve been muddying through the writing and querying trenches. I spent a year or so querying my first thriller. For those who aren’t quite as familiar with the jargon, I’ve been looking for a literary agent. After sending a boatload of queries, I got a… Continue reading Coming Up for Air
Author: writingandartinthemaking
Your Love is True
Your Love is True How can you stand it to be near me with all you can and do see? The ugliness, mistakes I continue to make, just how much more will you take? I'll never be enough, just plenty ragged and rough. Yet, here you are, by my side, even when I've… Continue reading Your Love is True
Moving Through the Storm
Moving Through the Storm Swept away by the torrential storm, no place to plant my shaking feet. I'm cold and the rain's beating down. I'm torn. I wanna give up. Maybe I just need a seat. My legs and heart feel too heavy, I have fallen hard to the ground. Worry and… Continue reading Moving Through the Storm
Two Rejections and a Double Rainbow
I had planned on talking about finally scraping up the courage to resume querying for one of my works of fiction. Though I received two query rejections I had sent that afternoon a couple of weeks ago, I saw a double-rainbow and thought, I just need to wait for the right literary agent to come… Continue reading Two Rejections and a Double Rainbow
Kiss 2020 ‘Goodbye’
No one saw anything as huge as a pandemic coming as we bade farewell to 2019, this time last year. At least I hadn't. Ushering out one year and welcoming another hadn't seemed like that big a deal. But, now, in the final hours of 2020, I don't want to wholesale dump the year as… Continue reading Kiss 2020 ‘Goodbye’