Amanda Palmer, multi-media artist extraordinaire (and, though I am loathe to fall into the old ‘identify the woman by her family’ trap, wife of Neil Gaiman) is pregnant. I happened across this article today, in which she defends herself from an eloquent yet, in my opinion, insufferably critical and nosey fan who is concerned essentially […]
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Sometimes, when you’re writing, you hit the point where you just want to give up. On the current story, maybe, or maybe even on writing altogether. We’ve all been there, I promise. So this post is for me as much as for anything, and it’s as the title says: bookmark it for when you need
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Posted with Liana’s permission. [View the story “You Can DO This” on Storify] Read more:I'll Never Have Enough Arms To Hold Them All What To Do When You're Feeding An Army…Humanity Sucks, But There IS Good News
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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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Although those of you who’ve been reading for any length of time know that my version of ‘back’ is always a little sporadic and unpredictable at the best of times: let’s face it: I’m not great at regular blogging. That’s going to apply doubly this year, because – and although this has hit social media,
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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In a similar vein to the last repost, and again, applicable to a lot more than just writing…….. I was originally going to title this post ‘A New Cure For Writers’ Block’. But really, it’s not a new cure, for either the world in general, or myself. You’ve heard me talk about it before; the
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Okay, so first of all, this post was bizarrely popular on my old blog. Second of all, it can be applied to many, many things other than writing. Hmm, maybe the two are connected. Anyway. Post. Enjoy. A thought has struck me – as thoughts are wont to do.Motivated by said thought, I re-examined
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So, this is a relevant appendage to my post from yesterday about loving the imperfect. Enjoy. Read more:#HappyDays The Best Compliments EverWhy Fighting Your Fears Is Complete And Utter Bullshirt.There Are Days
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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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