Originally posted on How To Talk About Art History:
Close-up of Michelangelo’s David Reader question: “Why do all old statues have such small penises?” The reader who sent me this felt that it was a question that was maybe too silly for my blog, but – firstly – there are no questions too silly for…
I’m very annoyed with a lot people regarding this stupid little pizza shop in Indiana. Yes, they are ignorant – and no, I wouldn’t give them a penny of my money. BUT, commenting on how they look, posting porn to their Yelp page, and threatening them is beyond (and I mean BEYOND) any human decency. […]
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Not my fingers, btw ? ? I’ve been playing around with this writing thing for a while now. (“a while now” in my vernacular means “25 years”) I even went to school to get all learned up on how to do it. I’m finally about to complete a…
I follow a lot of podcasts, but there are only a few that I feel compelled to listen to the absolute second they are downloaded. Two on that list are the Self Publishing Podcast and Better Off Undead. Both are from the same three inspirational and relatively insane guys and every now and then they mention […]
Anyone who’s taken a class with me knows exactly how much I despise character sheets. They’re evil and a waste of my precious, precious time. By the time I sit down and write with a character, he or she has lived in my head for months – almost to the point of my being schizophrenic. […]
First off, there’s a lot of stigma surrounding manic-depressive disorder. It’s as much a physical condition as anything, a lot like being born with a bum leg that acts up every now and then. I see it vilified in stories, movies, and in the media – and it sort of pisses me off. If you […]
Originally posted on Making it up as I go along:
? As we all know, there are a few entities who know absolutely everything there is to know about us because of what we do online. None seems to be more omniscient than Google though. If you use Google to find pretty much anything, you…
I have been on such a roll lately, writing like a maniac for the first time in my life. Running up to the 4 ½ day weekend that was Christmas this year, I was excited about all of the writing I was going to get done. It was not unthinkable that between that break and […]
A few months ago I got a little annoyed during our weekly writing group. One of the authors was working on a fantasy novel that contained witchcraft. One of the people in our group said that the spell his characters were using would actually take much longer in real life and a ten minute conversation […]
I’ve been writing a lot lately. Just the fact that I can honestly type that sentence makes me just about the happiest idiot on this planet – but that’s not what this post is about. Anyway, even when I’m in production mode, I still make sure I read for at least 30 minutes every day. […]
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