I first learned about “timed writing” in my grade-eleven Writer’s Craft class. The concept is simple: it’s exactly what it sounds like. You set a timer, and then you write, continuously, until the timer goes off. At the time, I found it mildly confusing that this could be considered challenging.…
(At first, I thought this blog entry might not work during social isolation, since nobody is running into anybody now. But then I realized–actually, this is the perfect time to post! There are no stakes, people can consider the ideas without having to apply them right away, and nobody will…
Like many of you (I hope), I’m practicing social distancing in the hopes of flattening the COVID-19 curve. That is, I’m not leaving our apartment unless I need to for food, for medicine, or to take out the trash; I’m taking precautions like staying 2m away from other people if…
Well, not really in December–as you may notice, we’re barely a week in. But I have to make room for my New Year’s blogs, don’t I? Anyway, here’s an incomplete list of small things–media and otherwise–that have been making my life better this final quarter. STEVEN UNIVERSE MOVIE!!!! Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhh!!!! :D…
One of my pet peeves is when critics make arguments about characters played by multiple actors (for example, in theatre) based only on the text of the script. We see this kind of argument a lot in when, for instance, historians assess the accuracy of plays that depict historical figures,…
Almost 10 years ago, I got sufficiently bored that I wrote a blog entry about things I decided I was “really, really bad at.” I promptly forgot all about it. But then, because I’m a narcissist/procrastinator who reads my own blog for fun instead of doing work, I came across…
Travelling and seeing new places can be expensive, but the biggest obstacle between me and seeing the world isn’t time or money. It’s gender. Let’s lay some groundwork. I’m a gender non-conforming woman. Although my gender identity coincides with the one I was assigned at birth*, the clothing I wear,…
The Magician’s Nephew was retcon before retcon became a thing. I remember feeling… disappointed when I finally got this sixth Narnia volume from my Scholastic book order in third grade. Up until now, the timeline had been fairly linear. Sure, The Horse and His Boy threw everything on its head…
This summer was particularly great, and this back-to-school season was particularly rough (thanks, High Holidays + revamping lesson plans + new-to-me-course! Also normal political the-world-is-going-to-hell stuff that I’m sure everyone is happy not to be reminded of again here). But here are 9 things that made the greatness greater and…
I am really lucky: going to a major theatre production in a professional venue is a comfortable experience for me. I’ve had opportunities to go to big-name productions since I was a teenager. But plenty of people haven’t been to a live theatre production before. If you’re one of them,…