Son is 3 years and a double handful of weeks old. He never stops moving, loves throwing balls, kicking balls, catching balls; driving cars, trucks, buses, trains; makes dinosaur noises and squeals like a pig; would live in a sandpit if he could convince adults this was remotely plausible; and his current favourite colour is […]
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Having just had a discussion with my husband last night about writing dark-ish stories, this is so on point. If you do just one random thing today, let it be this. This is the most powerful expression of why dark stories need to exist. It’s pictures, and it’ll take you all of a minute to
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Conversation from earlier this week, plotting an anthology of short stories from Liana & I: me: OH LOOK I FOUND A COMMON THEME IN MOST OF OUR STORIES DEATH confetti Story 1: daddy kills kid’s dog 2: soul-sucking light tries to suck MC’s soul 3: girl murders mother 4: husband murders wolves for wife to drink their
Possibly the single most beautiful and profound discussion of racial discrimination I’ve ever seen. It’s gentle, it’s lovely, and it’s all in pictures! But seriously, it’s lovely. And profound. Check it out. #LightenUp by Ronald Wimberly. Read more:Octopuses Are The Best In The Evening…Fearless – Great Song, Much Love
There are days when you just want to wash your hands and quit humanity. You know the kind. Maybe someone (or a whole host of someones) was rude to you; maybe people were petty or spiteful or jealous or rude. Maybe the news is a nightmare, with people taking advantage of everybody else, with the
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Just a quick final reminder that Holly’s How To Think Sideways course, her comprehensive how-to-write-a-novel-and-make-writing-your-career course, is closing in a little over 2.5 hours until early to mid 2016. See more info plus my recommendations here. And not that it’s much of an incentive, but if you DO sign up through my link, you can
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JUST SAYING 😉 [View the story “Why You Want To Buy #FGU” on Storify] Read more:That Perfect Girl Is Gone (But We Have THE BEST Disney Mashup To Console Us)!DEATHThe Chaos Shark
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Just a quick announcement that in about 30 hours, Holly Lisle’s biggest course, How To Think Sideways, will close registration for the rest of the year. She’s been making noises for a while now about moving her big courses to once-a-year-only registration, and that time is here. The cons: You only get a limited time
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Urgh. Doing the last little bit of research for #FGU (more properly known as From The Ground Up: Building A World That Works) and I’ve been doing a bit of comparative work with some of the other worldbuilding books that are out there – and trust me, there are surprisingly few, which is why I
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Just a quick note to say that finally, after only about two and a half years, the Inkprint Press website is fully functional. For those of you who weren’t aware, Inkprint Press is the publishing label Liana Brooks and I use for our self-published works 😉 www.inkprintpress.com – bookmark it today 🙂 Read more:New Story
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