The Blog
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Craft, process, and dispatches from the writing life.
February 2025
Treating the First Draft Like a First Draft
I've wanted to be a writer for as long as I can remember. And for almost as long, I've tried to be a writer. I've been…
January 2025
Foreword to Knowledge is Power
Although I have since paused working on this project and plan to return to it at a later date, at which point the book will become…
January 2025
Aphantasia and What It’s Like
Well, in one way or another I have been putting off (or building up to?) writing this post for many years. Six or seven years ago…
October 2024
Hi there!
My name is Y.J. Sargis and I am a currently un-published writer of epic fantasy and speculative fiction. I self-published the first book I ever wrote…