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Top 5 reasons I’m not writing what it is I sometimes think I want to write, some of which I debunk

5. My house is a mess.
There is far too much clutter in my brain already. Then there are those stories about what a messy desk signifies, so maybe not. Maybe I need to let my condo reach eccentric-weirdo stacks of shit proportions. (Maybe people who have been in my home are now scared.)
4. I’m [...]


Common Sense Triumphs Over The Man

Here is the best part of Singular They: The Pronoun That Came in from the Cold:
The central question in the matter of singular they is that of authority. Who has the power to decide how people should use their language? We have seen that history is not on the side of those who would ban [...]


“it seemed like a kind of magic - to see how experience could be converted into stories”

wood s lot linked to an essay about writing.
These sorts of things both attract and repel me. I enjoy reading good stories of all kinds, and I have a not-quite-extinguished dream of writing them myself. So I bring a doubled curiousness, as well as a wince-inducing questioning: if you can write write, why are you [...]


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