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The Costs of Creation, or “Would you like fries with that?
Seen on Facebook recently: It’s a useful analogy, and one I’ve used often as a consumer. I balance my desire for small luxuries in terms of how many lunches I would have to miss, or how many treats I would have to give up in exchange for a thing that I want. Item versus ingestion. […]
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On Wasting Time
Someone posted this quotation as a “gentle reminder” to their Facebook circle. Before I was halfway through it, I was making the same unhappy noises the cat makes when I rub his fur backwards. When I finished, I sat and put my thoughts in order the way the cat runs off to a corner and […]
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True Things About Me & Writing
“Things you might not know about me as a writer.” It’s an awkward phrase, and I wrote an odd list after pondering the concept. The original challenge had seven points. I’m not good at following rules. That might be another point. Point One: I assume my stories interest no one else. Don’t mistake this for […]
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Biting the Hand That Feeds
This week’s navel-gazing manifesto. (tl:dr version: I am a weird, bitter person. Run while you can.) Once I’ve reached the point that I admit I am feeling needy, I’m nearly unreachable. Any good thing said to me at that point is only being said because I whined. It isn’t real. It’s false kindness offered out of […]
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Where the Strong Lose
Subtitled, “An imaginary conversation between Strength and the World,” or “Why I wince when people thank me for writing strong female characters.” I attempt to write realistic characters, but I would never set out to write strong ones, because being strong sucks. Being strong means never getting the cake, and who wants that in life? What […]