Excerpted from "Women Rule", Michelle R. Bardsley in Writer's Digest/March 2005:

The Alpha Heroine's Inner Goddess: HeraHera was the queen of the gods and the patron goddess of marriage. She took a dim view of adultery. In fact, she spent a great deal of time exacting revenge on her husband, Zeus', illicit lovers and any children from those unions ( Read more... )

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong."
-- Joseph Chilton Pierce

The Taming of the Shrew (1983) is
1. "staged as seen in the 16th century"
2. a lot more fun than the Liz Taylor version
3. Piza :D

Writer's Digest (May 2005) has
a. www.angleonwriting.com (revision checklist)
b. www.authormania.com (tips and etc.)
c. www.artellawordsandart.com (combines words with art)
d. www.creativityforlife.com (inspiration)e. ( Read more... )

Title: Godmother Night
Author: Rachel Pollack
Summary/Buy me: Here!
Genre: "science fiction"/GBLT
Pages: 355
Rating: C+
Notes:This book reads like YA fiction, though I'm not sure how many times that genre can include the word "orgasm" and still be considered YA fiction. Still, the style of the prose reminds me very strongly of books intended for ( Read more... )

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Summer Reading:
Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky (trans. Garnett)
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A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
Native Speaker, Chang-Rae Lee
The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley AND 1984 George Orwell
Light in August, William Faulkner
Tess of ( Read more... )

Once upon a time, this was very interesting and important to me. Right now, I can't imagine why.

Definition ( Read more... )

"You hang on to your pain like it means something. Like it's worth something. Well, let me tell you, it's not worth shit. Let it go! Infinite possibilities, and all he can do is whine."

"Well, what am I supposed to do?"

"What do you think? You can do anything, you lucky bastard -- you're alive! What's a little pain compared to that ( Read more... )

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He had not played God, bringing forth human beings who would live in an explosion of intelligence, sudden fireworks instead of single, low-burning candles. But he had found a key God had hidden in the human genome. Someone else, some follower, some insatiably curious soul, some would-be visionary longing to take human beings to the next stage of ( Read more... )