Ask yourself this: why do you call your work “m/m” instead of “gay”? Both are three keystrokes. Why is it you only refer to your work as “gay” when you want to get a Lambda nomination? The Lambdas are for LGBT writing, not LGBT-slash writing. via Queer and Loathing in America – Part of Your […]
Ryan Bliss over at Digital Blasphemy does some amazing work. (the link is to the free gallery. A membership is totally worth the price.) It’s no surprise then, that his work gets snagged a lot. That doesn’t make it okay, but at least it’s not a surprise. What does surprise me is the reaction people
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[name removed], 45, of Starke, Fla., said she felt compelled to become political for the first time this year because she was upset by government spending. “Our government has lost sight of the powers they were granted,” she said. She added that the deficit spending was out of control, and said she thought it was
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Sometimes you just have to trash it all and write through someone else’s eyes. Sometimes you have a lovely bit of still-life, some couple thousand very pretty words, but your story hasn’t started yet. Or you’ve got a great scene, full of conflict and emotion, that doesn’t belong in the story you’re writing. I like
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I only thought I had Hiro conquered. But I shall overcome! I keep meaning to post some rants on here, and perhaps soon I’ll get to it. But Hiro has me distracted. It’s a battle of wills, you see, and he is as stubborn as I–almost. I will wear him down. This book will be
I’m so near the end I don’t want to do anything else. Hiro’s book, nearly done, yay!! And getting more ideas for the second and third… Elizabeth Bear calls it a deathmarch when she gets so close to the end that she just–pushes on and finishes it. Rather appropriate, I think. Onward!
So this morning I got up early, as I’ve been trying to form that habit, and I wrote my morning pages that I hadn’t done in perhaps a month. (well, I tried yesterday but only got half a page done before I had to leave.) Anyway. In my ramblings this morning, I plotted out the