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Queering Thanksgiving
Holidays have always been a sort of mystery to me. It’s hard to understand what the point of returning to your natal home is when you don’t get along with your family and you hate your hometown. It...
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Scattered Thoughts On Engels as a Framework for Worldbuilding
Engels: a man with a compelling beard One reason I am drawn to speculative fiction — both reading what others have written and creating it myself — is its potential for radical what ifs. By that, I...
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#ThankAWriter Project: China Mieville
go read this book right now I saw the #ThankAWriter project over on Nathan Bransford’s blog. Writing letters like this to my favorite authors has actually been something I’ve wanted to do for a long...
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Striking a Balance
balance is a tricky business(image courtesy of wikimedia commons, click through for source) I didn’t do any writing or writing-related stuff this weekend. Not a bit. Not one iota. I had plans — finish...
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When and Where I Write
spoiler: it’s on the bus(image courtesy of RTD; click through for source) I am pretty prolific writer, the kind that finishes multiple novel-length projects per year, but I can only write under certain...
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This blog is about to get personal
Since starting this blog I’ve tried to keep it just focused on the writing. But the longer this blog goes on, the less this division makes sense. I’m not interested in branding myself as an author...
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The Hearthstone #1: I Would Never Hurt You, or Parenting as a Survivor of...
me not hurting my kid “Don’t hurt me.” The first time my child said this to me, we were at Target. I’d just told her to put a box of something or other back, and she stared up at me with these huge,...
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The Hearthstone #2: Dear Medical Establishment, Please Stop Fat-Shaming My...
this is my baby giant next to her totally normal sized grandmother There is an ongoing discussion in my household: is my kid a giant baby or a baby giant? Zadie was born three weeks early and was on...
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The Hearthstone #3/Disability Diary #4: My Mercurial Brain
(not actually my brain) My brain is mercurial. It marvels and terrifies me in turn: sometimes it works so gloriously well, and sometimes it turns on itself with such viciousness. The same brain that...
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