So, this really happened. I was helping my friend Mike move, and I had stacked the dresser drawers in opposite order so I could put them back in easily. The three drawers were all different sizes. I took the bottom drawer, which was largest, out last, so it was on Read more…
New Year’s Resolutions: 1. Stop wasting time on blogging. 1. Write. 1. Write a lot. 1. Write 1,000 words a day. 1. Write 50,000 words every month. 1. Write 1,000 words every single day, weekends and holidays, too. 1. Just finish what you write. 1. Finish all those short stories Read more…
“You aren’t bleeding in this,” my Clarion instructor said, holding up his print-out of my story. “I want to see you write something close to the bone, something that bleeds.” After I finished crying inside because I was a failure, I thought, “What does that MEAN??” “Okay,” I said to Read more…
It annoys me when people say “you have to believe in yourself!” Do you? Do you really? I think of the people I’ve met who really believed in themselves. There’d be one in every writing class. They’d submit some unreadable, meandering block of prose with no plot, no characters, and Read more…
Procrastitron is an Autobot… we think? She’s never bothered to paint her allegiance logo. But she hangs out with the Autobots. Probably because, you know, the Decepticons would kick her out for not doing stuff. Procrastitron is not badly-drawn! Procrastitron is thematic in her simplicity. By the way, those colored Read more…
I have always considered myself a feminist, since I first learned the term as a child. (Though, like many people, for years I naively insisted I was “an egalitarian” because of course I was pro equality, not pro-female. I grew out of that. Feminism IS belief in equality. It’s only Read more…