(But first, apologies: between a week’s vacation at the family cottage and novel revisions, I’m afraid I’ve let this blog lie fallow two Mondays in a row!) As I’ve stated before on this blog, I believe the author is dead. That is: the intentions of the creator of a narrative…
Last week, when I was sharing some thoughts about Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra, I mentioned that including diversity of sexual orientations in a story doesn’t necessarily mean including sexual acts. I’d like to expand on that. The place and profession where I’m most cognizant of…
No, not this one, of which I wasn’t too fond. This one. One of the awesomest parts of being a writer is that watching and reading fantastic stories is a legitimate way of learning to be better at what I do (some would say the best way). I get the…