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Getting wrangled
Back to writing, in collaboration with my Brisbane friend Sian and the assistance of author wrangler Rachel & author wrangler assistant Cuinn Cattledog. And, oh yeah, I’m blogging again too, did you notice? Continue reading
Reading (& writing) spacy
Writing science fiction (as opposed to science fantasy) requires research & reading. Here’s some of the spacy stuff I read, so that I can write spacy too.
Posted in Cold, Long Dark, NaNoWriMo
Tagged NaNoWriMo 2012, research for writing, writing
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Hallowe’en: The night my writing is raised from the dead
In which I celebrate the imminent start of NaNoWriMo 2012 — & the resurrection of my writing life.
Posted in Cold, Long Dark, NaNoWriMo
Tagged Cold (story), Hallowe'en, NaNoWriMo 2012, NaNoWriMoe'en, Power Lemonade (tm), Pushaway (story), skankthrax, writing
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Becoming a Goodreads author
Yesterday after I posted about publication of my story “Pushaway” to my Facebook wall, my friend Cyd told me that I have an author profile on Goodreads. And what is Goodreads? It’s “the largest site for readers and book recommendations … Continue reading
I won’t abandon my integrity, even if you abandon me
I feel like talking about the Book of Job again, because (1) I’ll be giving a talk that starts out with my Job poem “Sermon” next month & (2) I’m reading a lot of old emails about a particularly Job-relevant period of my life.
Weird
“She said But you’re weird! as if / to say a repetition of it would / impel me to remember / it was not to be treated as a compliment, / an identity, a friend.” A poem for National Poetry Month.
Table 2 (poem)
“…Sustained / by statisticians, I am a maker / of passionless tables that summarize / in numbers the reasoned philosophy / of this well-ordered State’s philosopher-kings.” A poem for National Poetry Month.
Posted in Poems, Social justice
Tagged Alaska Justice Forum, James P. Carse, National Poetry Month, poem, The Religious Case Against Belief (book), UAA Justice Center, writing
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Vashti Speaks for Herself
“He said that? you heard him? The bastard! / I used to love him. Some ways I still do… / but honey, don’t believe all you hear. / He can put it on Larry King Live, / he can write it up in the Bible / for every preacher to preach, / it’ll still be a goddamn lie….” A poem for National Poetry Month.
Mielikki
“When they told me who to put on the throne / I said, no, I will not be ruled. / The gods they showed me were tyrants
who displeased me with their judgments, / their injustice, yes, their cruelty.” — A poem for National Poetry Month.
Posted in Mistress of Woodland, Poems
Tagged household gods, Mielikki, National Poetry Month, poem, writing
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Congealed remains of porridge
What do Vietnamese cuisine, Jewish study of the Talmud, and “Goldilocks & the Three Bears” have in common?
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Tagged bear, Dexter (TV), fairy tale, food, Goldilocks, Henkimaa blog stats, humor, Judaism, religion, Steve Aufrecht, weird Google searches, What Do I Know? (blog), writing
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