Because we all need the reminder now and then. [View the story “How Not To Be Hard On Yourself” on Storify] Read more:Foot Lamps and Stand Lamps: On Being Who You ArePermission To Be A PangolinPhew – Pretty Much Done
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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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“Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.” — Natalie Goldberg (via middecember) I keep writing about drugs, killers, and bad choices… what does this say about me? ~ Liana Brooks Me, I write about people who find strength
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I’ve blogging about this here before, but it can always stand a reprise… Finally, I figured out why it is that I don’t like depressing fiction in any form. I thought about trying to explain this to some of the people that know me in person, but really, it’s a kind of weird, complicated answer
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The rise of the internet has often been heralded as the rise of the common man. No longer are news, literature, and written communication in all its more general forms something that remain the exclusive domain of the rich, famous, or well-eductated. These days, anyone can – and does – have a say.Nobodies can rise
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Posted this on Tumblr just now, and thought the blog could use it too. See, the thing is ladies (and those gents that need to hear this too, naturally), no one ever said you had to only love things that were perfect. Pretty sure all of us could pick flaws in EVERYTHING we love, if
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showing a documentary to the class on social media and how corporations collect and sell data based on likes and RTs etc they are all so naive and they are totally missing the point they’re all like – dude, that guy is so not even funny and i’m like – dude, he makes a living out
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This seems to be the universe’s message to me at the moment, a reminder that writing, this thing I love, will never be fall-off-a-chair easy, but that that doesn’t mean it isn’t the right path for me. As Maggie Stiefvater pointed out the other week in her Tumblr response to my question, it’s easy sometimes
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Wow, it’s been forever since I did a link-a-bet. I think maybe not since the blog lived on Blogger! o.O But anyway, tonight: a selection of Things I Have Found. First of all, I am tremendously excited. My writing – I hesitate to say idol, because in my social context that’s a no-no, but
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Found this great project by Cambridge University today on Twitter, via a friend (I forget who, sorry). Basically, they had a bunch of personal-sized whiteboards and asked passers-by (presumably students in the main) why they needed feminism. The results are obvious, shocking, enlightening, and heart-breaking, and seriously, you should go have a look right now.
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