Tag: wrongthink
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Oh, you’re a writer?
I stopped telling people I write fantasy unless they directly ask what I write. Even then, they get that masked look on their face like they’re trying their damndest to hide their disdain. That or they had a sudden bout of diarrhea they were fending off. Any more, really, I don’t like telling people I’m…
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Sweet, Sweet Crazy
I don’t hop on the bandwagon too often, but this was just too much fun not to share. I’ve seen it a couple places, but Pat at Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist convinced me to click and read the comments. It’s best if you read the review (which I think is incredibly fair), but then you have…
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Comments, Questions, Criticisms
We’ve all seen the blog posts and Tweets by agents of the horrible responses some queriers send them a rejection. It can be fun to rubberneck such responses, watching the car wreck that is that person’s nonsexistent career and wonder What were you thinking? That’s a no brainer, though. I assume none of you would…
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A Dollar Fifty in Late Charges at the Public Library
I have two degrees, English with a focus in creative writing and theatre with a focus in playwriting. When I finished college, I considered myself a playwright. With the exception of two classes, my English education had been crap1, 2. Of my required creative writing classes, I had the same professor for all but one…
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Realigning the Thought Tracks
There is some common wisdom shared among authors that has gotten twisted by the internets, like playing a game of operator/telephone (depending on where in the country you grew up–basically a message is relayed through a number of people and it warps with each passing). The very wise advice was, “Don’t quit your day job…
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On the Outside
Has there ever been a series that you read and thought was okay, but you just didn’t get why people are so fanatical about it? I’m that way with the Hunger Games trilogy. I see posts and you tube clips all over the net and everyone’s so excited. I certainly don’t want to spoil their…
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Reading is Fundamentals
Today’s post is written on my phone while I take the late train into work. Will be busy as soon as I sit down, so it’s now or never. Someone commented on a blog I read how the blogger must feel so proud for buying books as gifts. A coworker of mine only reads classics…
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Bordering on the Ridiculous
Sara Megibow posted recently that she “did her part to help Borders” by buying a book there. And all I can think is, you either screwed the publisher or screwed the author by buying there. If Borders doesn’t pay for the books it’s selling, someone has to take the loss. Either the publisher will take…
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At the End of All Things
More and more often, one of the arguments against ebooks I’m hearing is: When society collapses and there is no more power to charge the ebook or run the servers or what have you, I’ll be happy with my paper books. It’s a hyperbolic example, but not for the reasons I think they’re intending. I…
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A Good and Happy Life
Occasionally I’ll rant in my head1. Something touched me off yesterday. I think it was a webcomic or a response to a webcomic. I don’t know. The jist of it was that an author uses his medium as a pulpit for his own opinions. At face value, this can be true. The context of the…