Life
What am I up to?
My whelm feels somewhat over, so I thought, rather than force myself to make a new blog post on some topic, I’ll list what I’m up to now. Tonight I’m reading at Appletree Books for National Poetry Month. It’s very Read more…
Blathering
Scared People
So this one time, I took the RTA out to a friend’s house in Euclid Heights. This was before cell phones and I found myself at my friend’s house, the lights off, the door locked. I and my boyfriend waited Read more…
Blathering
Future Predictions
I once again feel like making a bunch of random future predictions. Like in this previous post. With terrible illustrations by me, drawn in GIMP on a laptop trackpad because my new mac doesn’t have a USB port. (There’s some Read more…
Blathering
Everyone is One-Sixteenth Cherokee
When I was young, my mother told me a lie. It was a big lie and she told it with remarkable consistency. She told me she was Jewish. “And since all that matters for Jews is what your mother is, Read more…
Life
GDC
Last week, I attended my first Game Developers Convention (GDC). It was also, with the exception of IndieCade, my first game developers’ convention of any kind. GDC is… it’s big. Worldcon? Tiny in comparison. Like 6,000 people go to Worldcon. Read more…
Writing
Why Plot?
Why do we need plot anyway, the stupid thing!? Why does it think it’s so important, instead of, say, character or really delicious scene description? These are the question newbie-me asked many times, when I was so good at dialog Read more…
Writing
A Day in the Life
I was asked what my “typical writing day” is like. Every day is writing day! So this is: a day of me. On a typical weekday, I wake up between 8:27 and 8:34. Ish. I don’t use an alarm, so Read more…