DO NOT look in my tea pot cupboard...
honestly, I wonder if my co-workers view my assortment of strainers and tins in my office as signs of obsession and/or a serious addiction?
I saw that. We broke the bloody planet, didn't we?
My pretty city, even when it's too cold.
... and part of the book's strength is its long sentences, dripping with clauses, in defiance of how our society of late has declared itself impatient with compound syntax and complex thoughts, a glory of thoughts branching artfully and completely without hurry.
#amreading
One needs not only bread, but roses. Indulge!
Just finished "There's Always This Year" by Hanif Abdurraquib and it deserves the hype. It blew my brain out the back of my head, and if you read this book, you will know intimately the interior of my own heart from May to July of 2016 and how did he do that?
The new rules for the independent military newspaper are the Defense Department's latest effort to put extraordinary restrictions on journalists covering the agency. n.pr/4dmG2f9
Merci!
Tea party day! Am I mutton dressed as lamb? Only if I care what others think.
When we cook tuna, we turn the sirloin steak of the sea into…. Sigh… chicken of the sea.
Downside of blind reading: the gut-punch when the submission goes un-blind after decision and you see you rejected one of your favorite authors.
Upside: I know I'm being as fair as I can.
I didn't realised! It's very fitting ;) Bauhaus women had very cool hair styles:
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and is that a 20s undercut??
0 donations on Shimaa's new fundraiser. Please help if you can.
Something I had to learn as a writer: do not hold back that big cool idea, that snappy dialog bit, that action you're planning.
You will think of more cool things at the rate you use them. Blow your wad, every time.
#amwriting
The new issue of Hyperspace of Words is out and my guest today is @reasie.bsky.social, who recently released her novella Multitude, by @apexmag.bsky.social, one which I was thrilled to blurb!
renanbernardo.substack.com/p/into-the-h...
My biggest pet peeve on slush stories is opening with someone waking up.
But after the last ten stories I read, I'll add opening with a paragraph of poetic scene-setting. I don't care about the weather if I haven't met the characters yet.
It makes me giggle, too. :D
Hey this is cool - an open community of sewing classes for the disenfranchised: www.open-threads.org/mission
Yay, the biopsy was negative. My doggie is cancer-free!
(Now you know what I've been silently worrying about the past two weeks.)
Me in the 1980s: UGH, Sci-Fi always has people in leotards. Fashion doesn't work like that!
Me today, in a mall food court, surrounded by people in athleasure bodysuits and yoga pants: well, crap.
I mean... salsa!!
nom.
and some queso dip?
Helping the English department set up an automated "Prompt of the day" for Poetry Month. This is the most fun I've had at work in a long time. :D
Illustrated blog time! Join me on an imaginary trip to 2055!
https://www.marievibbert.com/a-journey-to-2055/
I'm listening to college radio and some Latin jazz comes on and like Pavlov's dog I immediately need chips and salsa.
Galactic Hellcats 3: The Mother of all Hellcats is currently 21,680 words long. Working on chapter 10 of probably gonna be 25?
Another thing to like about Apple's Foundation series: They let a pretty boy be heroic.
First time I've ever seen a man in eyeliner and a backless blouse carrying his unconscious wife across a battlefield. About time! Equal time for glam boys!
(Apple's Foundation, no spoilers, but...)
They spoke the holy name of Daneel!
My first book-character crush.
Lolsob. I like to think my works have more bands of pink? :D
Aw! Great new review of Galactic Hellcats: "A romp through space with three perfectly adorable rouges. I haven't had that much fun reading a book since my middle school adventure reads." - Melissa Giggley
