bitter talk

For a long time, I thought Katarine Ryiah was a failure. Not in the obvious sense, she survived, she trained, she became a Jedi Knight, but in the way that mattered to me. She never measured up. Not to the names that carried weight. Not to the Jedi who felt larger than life. When I thought...

There's something strange about looking back at Katarine now. Not because she's bad (I know she isn't), but because she feels like she belongs to a different creative lifetime. When I first wrote her, the medium itself was different. Roleplay wasn't about depth or long arcs or carefully...

"Perhaps the kindest thing I could do for the characters would be to leave their stories unfinished. Leave them with their possibilities, their potential, even if they only exist in my own mind." — Rebecca Yarros Over the years, I have grown so much as a writer, but even now, I find myself...

"This is just bad writing. Just bad writing. So you know what to do. Just do it.." [Deletes words on laptop screen] "No bad writing. I think that solves it." - Johnny Depp as Morte Rainey The Secret Window (2004)

I have been roleplaying for eighteen years - nineteen in February. My very first character was Katarine Ryiah, and throughout this long writing life she has been a source of constant, aching tension. From the very beginning, I didn't love her story, but I loved her, so I kept her. And as I have...

I GOT MY PHD!!!!!!!! Sincerely, Dr. Kitter Bitters