With My Teacher Hat On

Why Positive Affirmations Sound Really Stupid To You

“Overheard” this conversation on a Discord server I’m part of (whee, look at me learning new technology and finding communities without social media!*) this evening where the conversational participants were like eh, positive affirmations always sound so stupid to me, and I’m like OH HEY HI I CAN HELP WITH THIS I KNOW WHY. * […]

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Is Tolkien Making Me Rethink My Primary Story Universe?

I think I’ve mentioned here briefly before that I finally have a name for my cohesive, overarching storyverse, to which perhaps 75% of my stories, both published and planned, belong. It’s The Veiled Worlds, a reference to the fact that the fey live in The Realms, a world veiled from ours, and ours veiled from

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Resistance and Habits and Feeling Uncomfortable and What To Do About All Of It

Getting back into the habit of things is significantly on my mind of late as I try to restart writing after 6 months off. I ended the month with nearly 15,000 words, which is pretty good for a cold start, considering I didn’t really write the first week of August and it’s been as aforementioned

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In Which There Is No Off Switch For Caution (A Retitled Repost)

Sometimes, you’re thinking about a thing because of life circumstances and all (in this case, teaching feminist critical literary theory to a class last week), and you feel like maybe you should go write it all down and figure it all out somehow… And then you stumble across something that makes you realise, actually, you’ve

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Look, Apparently It’s Harry Potter Week And We’re All Going To Be Okay With That

In sharp contrast to our man Draco of the last two days, I present to you one of the many, many reasons that Snape is a jerk: See, unlike Draco, Snape is now what we call a ‘legal adult’. Wait, there’s a quote from the queen herself about this… Yes, Draco is approaching maturity in

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