This is something I can't post on Facebook because not everybody needs to see it, but the people who will be most amused will see it here. You know who you are ( Read more... )

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I did a tarot layout this past Solstice, as I usually do. This time I chose the Wheel of the Year layout, with Yule at the top and continuing around until Samhain to Yule's left, with a card representing each solstice/equinox and sabbat. The card I drew for Yule was the Seven of Cups, the card of mourning. Shortly thereafter came the deluge of ( Read more... )

The kind that deserves a special version of Santa Claus to cap off its infamy. So instead of "Ho Ho Ho" or even Bad Santa, let's have Badass Santa to exact vengeance on everybody and everything that made this year suck.


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There is a member of my writers' group who smells. It isn't regular, didn't-bathe BO, it's that bacterial stink that happens in skin folds that don't get cleaned out properly (the guy's fat and diabetic, among other issues). I can handle sweaty BO, but the bacterial reek has that something-died element, and I nearly visibly retched yesterday when ( Read more... )

Somehow, my local area ended up with two municipal liaisons. Our regular ML, who is also the leader of our writers' group, forgot to renew her status as local ML when she registered with NaNo this year. She corrected her oversight, but in the meantime another person had been designated ML for our area. That's how we ended up with two ML's. However ( Read more... )

Am I right in thinking that "because she's evil," "because he's like Hitler," and/or "because he's a megalomaniac" is frowned upon by editors as a villain's motivation in a story? Don't publishers (and readers) desire more complex and relatable reasons for villains to perform their villany these days?

I got an emailed plea from one of my fellow writers group members today, basically begging me to rewrite a flash fiction for him that he'd written for a contest, or possibly anthology. Apparently he knows it sucks, but doesn't know how to fix it. I've won stuff, so obviously if I write his story for him, it'll do well wherever he sends it. Somehow ( Read more... )

How horrible is it that whenever I see a certain member of my writers' group has posted a chapter to critique, I want to sob? It's not even terrible writing, just soo dry.

All of a sudden, all my male neighbors have shaved heads and ugly, unkempt, bushy beards. Is this look a thing? What image is this look supposed to project?