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A New Blog in an Old Space; Also, Washing Dishes Like A True Heroine

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Well, it’s obvious that this blog in its present format has been more or less squeezed out of my life. I’ve become actually busy, something I thought would never happen to someone like me. Normally what would happen at this point is that I’d shut the blog down and then months from now when I became especially excercised about some new issue or felt that I’d moved on to a new stage in my life I would open a new blog. I think I’m done with that pattern. Nearly twenty-seven… Read more A New Blog in an Old Space; Also, Washing Dishes Like A True Heroine →

Oh, Horrors!

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It was one of my favorite expressions as a teenaged girl. I was a very odd sort of teenaged girl. I’m in anguish. After having written a detailed outline of my Ayleth/Dragon story, and come within 5,000 words of finishing it (I can write 1,000 words in an hour) I realized two things. One, it felt dull. True, the dialogue was engaging and the physical setting was rich and colorful; the plot was well-conceived and the storyline was meaningful. But it was set in a very generalized sort of fantasy… Read more Oh, Horrors! →