Ya’ll familiar with Theseus’s Paradox? Quick philosophical set-up: Theseus was all about adventuring on his great wooden ship, right? Well, after he dies, the Athenians keep the ship as an homage. As the years go by, it begins to rot. The people of Athens replace each piece of rotten wood with a fresh plank until […]
This week, I decided to spend time reading “well regarded” writers, whatever the hell that means. Mostly, I just tried to think of lit that I’d been forced to reach in high school English classes. Hemingway came to mind, but I was not in the mood for his boundless machismo. And you know how I […]
It’s that time again. That new moon time. That oversharing-with-strangers about my witchiness time. And not a moment too soon. Towards the end of a lunar cycle, right before the moon hides her face for a night, I generally find myself yearning to do the same. When I think about all my unmet goals and […]
Last Sunday, I really wanted two things out of a read: thoughtful descriptions of nature, and a genuine love story. I haven’t been reading much fiction lately (been catching up on my style guide game). And the last short story I’d read was the dreary, drab, and emotionally bleh “Architectural Salvage” by Will Self. So I wanted […]
You know how to tell it’s time to leave the house and find another place to write? Out of nowhere you notice that there’s a build up of grime on the crooked upper elbow of the pipe under your bathroom sink. Are you really a bad enough person to keep WRITING at this juncture – […]
I know I know I know I’m a giant nerd, but I had so much fun reading through writing rules in The Little Red Writing Book this past week. And it’s not just because I love rules. And writing. Oh wait, yes, it’s exclusively because of those two things. Ya’ll may be aware that I’ve […]
You wouldn’t know it unless I told you, but I really racked my brain for a way to make this brief post about the importance of style guides interesting. I did some long fruitless Google searches on the topic, including but not limited to historical formatting errors, style guides in history, and style guides are exciting (just […]
Give me a nerdy cultural moment any day. Especially if it has to do with Harry Potter. The other day I read a post by a fellow blogger in which he discussed writer Will Self’s interview in the Guardian. Along with Self bragging that he read up to 50 books at a time (massive eye roll), […]
Can proudly whimper that I’ve just finished my first week of freelance writing. Recently, I left the old 9 to 5 grind (read: my temp job ended and I needed to scramble) to make a foray into independence, self-determination, and dignity. Which is just to say I left one grind and entered a way harder, […]
As a vegetarian myself, I had mixed feelings about this book. In The Vegetarian, the main character (although is she the main character, if we so rarely see the story from her point of view?) Yeong-Hye has a series of violent dreams which make her realize that meat is repugnant. But then, you know, she […]