Category Essays

The perfect pairing Vesti la giubba. If you know, you know. (If you don’t, search it on YouTube. You won’t be disappointed.) Put on the costume, the makeup and make them laugh! Ignore that your heart is in pieces, as we…

Writing Through Chaos & Clarity Sometimes, writing is the only thing that makes sense. Not the structured, word-count kind. You know, the stuff you produce when you aim to “sit down and write those words” during a Pomodoro sprint session…

It chose me They always talk about finding your voice. They never talk about when you finally stop running from it. Back in the day when I was a wee gal of a romance writer, I tried to write sunshine. I’m sure you’re familiar…

You’re Not Getting Out Alive, So Live Epically, a letter from the Velvet Parlor The Velvet Parlor is where the veil thins—a quiet room lined in candle smoke and half-kept promises. Here, I write by firelight and intuition, letting the…

A letter to my own writing vulnerability The first voice I lost was my own. I’m still writing her back to life. People read my Substack posts and say, in a roundabout way: “Dahlia… you sound different.” And me, ever the dramatist,…