Should I Admit That I’m Using People?

So here’s the thing.  We’re one month away from NaNoWriMo.  That’s when crazy people such as myself write a 50K word novel from start to finish during the month of November.   I did it last year…and it about killed me. Seriously.  I mean, I loved it.  I loved the renewed feeling of discipline and [...]

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When Do I Get To Be A Jerk For Three Decades? The Perils Of HimDerella

This past week was spent either bouncing back from a particularly strenuous (to me, the weak sauce sister) week or clearing out volumes of Netflix Videos on Demand.   One of those videos left me even more exhausted and sick of the world. There exists out there in the Zeitgeist a film about Harlan Ellison. [...]

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The Subversive Needle

Dear (Usually Male) Author: I appreciate that you are deciding to have ‘strong’ fictional heroines in your book(s).  It’s nice to see that the day isn’t always saved by Conan or Hercules or another male person.   Not that male persons aren’t wonderful, and not that I wouldn’t welcome one of them saving my world [...]

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All In The Game, Yo

I have a new appreciation for heroin addicts. In the legends I’ve heard about heroin addiction–not being exposed to heroin myself, you understand–the dealers hook you with the really good stuff and you spend the rest of your sad, addicted nod of a life chasing that dragon.   No hit will ever be as pure [...]

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CopyKat (Adventures In Lazy Blogging)

I know you hate it when I do this.  But since I can only assume most of the people who trouble themselves to read this blog aren’t so in to me that they follow me to every waystation on the Information Superhighway to read what I’ve written in other people’s comments.   And since I’ve [...]

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Hip

I did some musing in the shower this morning.  One thing led to another and now I feel as though I can share some things with the world. Things that used to be hip but aren’t anymore: Referencing Spinal Tap.  Seriously, if one more person says “these go to 11″ or “you can’t dust for [...]

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Fahrenheit Zero

Yesterday on Facebook, Slarti offered (jokingly, I assume) to burn a copy of Twilight for me on Saturday.   He alluded to the fact that Saturday is the day people are burning books. I’ve spent most of this week in a drug-induced haze.   I was expecting a bad endo flare and it came, screamingly, [...]

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Put Down Your Bible And Start Being A Christian

Since the contretemps with the Christian Booksellers’ Association in early summer I’ve found myself reading more blogs by Christians–specifically authors who write books for other Christians’ enjoyment. It’s become a singularly frustrating experience. I realise that I’m generalising here, because I don’t honestly wish to write 2000 words of blog entry today, and I’ve already [...]

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These Friends Of Mine

Ten years ago when people were starting to call “Online Journaling” by a hip new 2.0 name–”blogging”–they also tried to do the hip 2.0 thing of monetizing it.   Stories started trickling out about this or that blogger who was able to retire because they’d found some hook, capitalised on it and now had enough [...]

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The Worst Broken Camcorder EVER

It occurred to me last night around 11:35 as I tried to watch yet another gritty British police procedural that I should find out how to conjure a patronus–and to wonder what it would be if I did. Wouldn’t it be ironic to have one’s Patronus be a black dog?  ”Fight Depression with your own [...]

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