April 2012

Stumbling On

Stumbling On

I’m trying to get this story done. It is progressing! Just so slowly… I remember with fondness the days when I wrote 800 words every work day and about 2k on days I didn’t work. I try to tell myself I write better now, but I’m not sure that’s true. I mean yes, I’ve improved […]

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Always Nice

Always Nice

…when your stats take a nose-dive. It’s a really funny-looking dive, too. The graph looks like this over three days: _|_ Hmm… Well, anyway. I noticed that Goodreads hasn’t been pulling my posts, and I wonder if my feed is somehow messed up and causing the issue. Anyone who actually got here (or did get

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Girls Can Be Geeks Too

So a while back I talked about the awesome Set Phasers to LOL. I barely mentioned then, and I’ve not mentioned a few times since, a truly annoying thing that keeps popping up. Sometimes it’s veiled. Sometimes it’s not so much. see more Set Phasers To Lol Get over this, okay? Because “girls” go to

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What Do You Do If Your Child is Gay?

What do you do when your treasured child, your darling daughter, your handsome and sweet son, announces he’s gay? Say you love him/her. Do it now. That child you have loved all her life, that baby you guarded and toddler you chased, is standing there afraid they’ve done the one thing Mom and Dad can’t

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Whose Idea Was This?

Kid’s band concert, doctor appointment, business meetings, work…why are there all these things in my schedule when I have a deadline? Who did this? …oh. Right. Uhh…have a bit of Louder than Sirens, Louder than Bells? It’s now past 30,000 words, oops. Saturday dawned with low threatening clouds, but it was dry and the weather

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Careening Forward

Careening Forward

There comes a point in most stories where it all comes together. Everything I’ve painstakingly researched, pondered, arranged and written, all comes together and I’m typing like the wind, trying to keep up with the story finally blossoming in my brain. Of course it’s an illusion–I’m probably going to hit at least one more wall.

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STFU, You’re Amazing

STFU, You're Amazing

I was reading this today, and I wanted to stand up and cheer. I’m talking about how we minimize, despise, excoriate, and abhor ourselves. How we exclude ourselves from consideration. How we martyr ourselves for others. How we call ourselves ugly, awful, incompetent, and stupid. I don’t know exactly how to describe the sensation I

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