Tag: contrarian
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The Sum of Our Contradictions
The time has come, the walrus said, to speak of many things…well, one thing, anyway. Let me explain my love of gargoyles. It’s a love of grotesques, if I want to be precise, and I do like precision in most things. Gargoyles are a subset of the larger grotesque category, somewhat like Malamutes are a […]
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Gardners & Architects & Bugaboos, Oh, My
Are you an outliner or a plot-on-the-fly kinda person? Is one harder than the other? Here’s one take: GRRM makes pantsing (or gardening as he calls it) sound easy. Lazy, even. This irks me. (He considers himself a gardener by the way.) He is doing his own work a disservice by belittling the effort that […]
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Ripostes: My latest rant about aphorisms
The less SEO-acceptable title for this post would be Shit I Hate Hearing, or Advice That Can Go Piss Up A Rope. Sometimes I need to grump about things in life that get my goat. This is my space for doing that (See the goats? See them?) and I despise these tidbits of wisdom with a […]
