Wanting people to be direct and being direct myself has been “rude” all my life, and the current trend is to blame my “rudeness” on “autism.” (Not one of my diagnoses, officially or self, but it’s a handy ableist blanket for some people to throw over “every behavior that’s inconvenient for me.”) While editing a […]
In honor of the occasion (it’s love-related, I promise), I posted a short story on Ko-Fi. Click the title or image to read “A Threat Is Only a Heart Turned Backwards.” It’s not paywalled at the moment, but being paid for my labor is a pretty reliable way to encourage me to do more of
Eventually, in order to level up, you have to start getting a lot better at things you suck at rather than 0.1% better in areas of existing competence. To that end, last year, I started working on short fiction. I have a natural inclination to complicate and expand, so I’ve always struggled with the tight
Witness me! I purchased only the yarn I need to finish a sweater and did not fill up my cart to get “free” shipping like a well-trained little consumer. Even with $6 S&H and 10% sales tax, the total squeaked in just under $20. Maybe all these squares will actually be a sweater by next
Every new visible crack in the publishing infrastructure inspires me to move one of my eggs to a new basket. Accordingly, I’ve added a Payhip store to my direct sales options. Still only the same old ebooks there for now, but I’m ghost-administering a workshop through Payhip’s course platform and taking notes on how I
I won’t be doing a year-end recap. I don’t particularly enjoy spewing negativity into the world and can’t put a positive spin on another terrible year in a long line of terrible years[efn_note]I think this is year seven of this particularly grim phase. If we blame it on Saturn’s quarter cycle, we can say there
If you visited in the past 24 hours, you may have seen a “Save As” popup rather than a website. I too found this concerning! Especially since I couldn’t get into WordPress to attempt any of the proposed fixes and had to venture into the shadowy labyrinth of my web host’s unintuitive interface. Although you
Between a workshop I’m running anonymously for a writer who doesn’t write, Reddit writing subs, and a nepotism hire at my soulless corporate writing gig, I’m being besieged from all sides by mistreatment of supporting characters. I’m doing what I can to address specific abuses, but I’ll collect my general thoughts on the subject here.
A couple months ago, I made a double batch of orange cinnamon rolls, wrapped up one pan, and threw it in the freezer. I took it out to thaw today because I’ve earned no-effort sugar and gluten. That’s right, kiddies. This round of revision is done! 🥳 *arthritic twerking*
I missed the first 20 minutes of John Wick 2 the only time I had an opportunity to watch it and had no idea what it was supposed to be about, so I headcanoned that Keanu was at odds with Common for being unworthy of Queen Latifah in a different movie.[efn_note]Just Wright. (Also currently on