In 2007, this article made the rounds: Pearls Before Breakfast. It went viral. It was forwarded to me dozens of times. It was supposed to be inspiring. It pissed me off. There’s a certain privileged tone to it, see. It Read more
Or, how not to network. Everyone says you have to network. You need to meet people in the field. So… at every writer’s conference I go to, I’m the dork who runs up to the Famous Presenter Person and says… Read more
It started with an observation, as I was driving one day through an inner city neighborhood. A jaywalker casually made his way in front of my car and I said, “Wow. That guy isn’t afraid of anything.” “I think there’s Read more
My office just got a new gender-neutral bathroom. There was a lot of objection from some staff members, mostly women, about having to ‘share with men,’ but ultimately, no amount of objection could erase the simple need: We needed it Read more
Okay, so it didn’t win the IF competition, and it didn’t get accepted for publication at the only interactive fiction market I know of, so I am posting my wee text adventure “Take Over the World – Or at Least Read more
I used to never finish a draft of anything. Or a sewing project. Or a crochet project. Or a poem. I was a queen UNfinisher. At the Game Devs meet up the other night, during a discussion on unfinished projects, Read more
When we talk about ourselves, and other real people, we can agree that who a person is, the content of their character, is more important than what they are. Who > What So why is it, when we talk about our Read more