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Puss in Boots
One of my writing goals for this year is to practice more short fiction (at least one short story per quarter). So I figured I’d participate in Chuck Wendig’s Flash Fiction Challenge: Fairy Tales Remixed. I chose “Puss in Boots.” For my subgenre, the random number generator chose “superhero.” The result follows. Puss in Boots…
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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…