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Why I hate the criticism “A man/woman would never day/say [thing]”
Last week, Chuck Wendig wrote a post on perception of gender in novels. (Warning: his site includes many words that workplaces and schools likely block, and while I do think my description of the post is accurate, his own title is far more . . . colorful.) The gist is that he’s been accused of writing…
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On hope
I’ve been thinking, off and on, about hope. It’s considered buoyant, uplifting. Hope raises us up out of the pit, the anticipation of a better tomorrow, if we can just make it through today. So it’s interesting that the related word aspire means, literally, “to breathe upon.” Not, say, “to breathe upward,” which I suppose…
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3 things I’d ask Santa for if. . .
He gave out abilities and not physical gifts. He could do things instantaneously instead of apparently requiring time enough to make gifts at the North Pole and then travel faster than the speed of light to deliver everything. (Not sure one can ask Santa for things the day of Christmas.) He were real. The 3…
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Maybe poetry makes it better
Thoughtless Ideas they have fled My brain is on vacation Sorry for dull post
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Blargle flargle
3 signs your brain has all the cognitive capabilities of a Jell-O Pudding cup The only thing you can think to title your blog post is “Blargle flargle,” and even that took a solid five minutes. You can’t think of any other reasons* signs. Flargle? *Actual error in writing this post.
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Why I write spec fic: A (partial) manifesto
(Edit: I’d scheduled this post to go live on Wednesday the 4th, but somehow WordPress missed posting it, and I didn’t realize till now.) In my senior seminar at college nearly ten years ago, we had an audit participate in the course. If you are clairvoyant (see what I did there with the spec fic…
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3 things I’m thankful for
OK, so I know a lot of people on social media are doing the 30-days of thankfulness thing, where they post daily one thing they’re thankful for, with the idea that they wind up with 30 things. That’s 10 times as many as 3. Some might then conclude I’m a slacker. To which I respond…
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3 Things about my dog I don’t understand
Why she feels the need to investigate smells that apparently scare her, as she will sniff some strange odor that makes her tuck her tail between her legs, and spend more time on the scary smell than any other thing during our walk. Her desire to bark or growl at, or, if I were to…
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Another year of no NaNo
I’d had a thought about putting up a post about unicorns, but couldn’t quite figure out what would go in it aside from a rambling retrospect on my wallpaper choices as a six-year-old. So herewith, a post about writing, which I know I’m ostensibly supposed to avoid, as back in the day I was all, I…