From past blog entries you may have hypothesized that I have little experience writing sexual scenes. And you’d be right. But “little” experience is not “no” experience, and I think I’ve come to terms with the potentially embarrassing part about writing about sex in fiction that real!people!I know! might read. What…
After an unfortunate screen-shattering incident around American Thanksgiving last year, I got a new phone. On Cyber Monday, I splurged on HabitBull, a habit tracker. I use the app to record my progress in habits I’d like to improve or just have a record of, like eating enough fruits and…
Happy 2016, everyone! After what I posted so recently about to-do lists, maybe I should take my own advice and not place so much importance on completing lists of resolutions. Either way, here’s my progress as of the New Year.
Hey there, 2015! You were pretty kind to me. You taught me so much! Things like…
Hello, my lovely friends, family, acquaintances, and Internet strangers! Some of you celebrate Christmas! Some of you do not! Many of you in the former category sometimes worry about including those in the latter. I know it can feel like the season is littered with word-bombs that may unintentionally hurt…
My to-do list runs my life. I check it several times every day. I take great pleasure in ticking items off the list. If my to-do list is complete, then even if there are other things I should be doing, I feel a sense of accomplishment and peace. If it…
Fellow writers, we’ve all been here, yeah? You’re in the middle of a piece. You were fast out of the gates starting it off: you’ve established the hook or got the characters yelling at each other or provoked your reader’s curiosity. You’re cruising along. And then… pppht. The car runs…
When Boyfriend asked why I didn’t like it when he teasingly reads what I’m writing over my shoulder, I told him that was because it was garbage. Not, I hastened to explain, the self-effacing “oh all my work is garbage” kind of garbage, but, like, actual garbage: this is a…
I don’t remember much about Square One‘s Dragnet parody, Mathnet, apart from the fact that I loved it, that the Christmas episode of Shining Time Station prevented them from ever airing the solution to their wrestling mystery serial, and that one plotline sticks out in my memory. The two Mathnet…