Common advice tells you to write every day. I never got the hang of it. NaNoWriMo is coming soon, and then, I'll write every day. I'll live in one project (the last of the full Planetary Tarantella novels, An Epitaph For Everything Else) so completely that I'll dream it and forget how to talk about… Continue reading Every Day
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What It’s Like to Live With EDS (Because Clearly People Still Don’t Know)
Yesterday, I found out that a friend who shares my illness, a friend who was instrumental in my pursuit of diagnosis and proper treatment and who is a publicly visible advocate for disabled people, was being stalked by someone who accused them of "faking" and "has a friend who is writing an article about it."… Continue reading What It’s Like to Live With EDS (Because Clearly People Still Don’t Know)
Health Update
There's a lot going on in this body. It's amazing to me that so many people get to go through the first thirty, forty, fifty years of their lives without thinking much about their meatsuit. It doesn't interrupt them. It doesn't stop them from going places. It doesn't rebel when they eat perfectly normal things.… Continue reading Health Update
Title
As you can probably tell from the title of this blog being "Title," my composition skills are failing me. The brain is tired. In a better place than the last few months, but tired. Still, the gap between blogs was bordering on too wide to jump, so here's a wobbly platform to stand on between… Continue reading Title
New Year, Very Similar Me
There's only so much a girl can change. Perhaps I am growing old. Except that college kids keep mistaking me for their people, so possible I am not growing old correctly. All the same, I refuse to give up my purple hair or my gratuitous cursing. Anyway. Each year, I look around at the flurry… Continue reading New Year, Very Similar Me
Updates from NaNoLand
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! Okay, no, but seriously. It's National Novel Writing Month again, that time when novelists and novelist hopefuls set out to write 50,000 new words in one month. This year, I'm a NaNo Rebel (as defined by the NaNo show-runners) because I'm working on an existing project that already had ~30k words on November 1st.… Continue reading Updates from NaNoLand
Long Absence, Few Words
First off, it's nice that I can post any old thing on this blog and y'all read it anyway. You might be here for the politics, or the writing, or the queerness, or the book recs, but you seem to keep reading regardless of my dumping uncategorized content in here. I love you, too. In… Continue reading Long Absence, Few Words
Apocalypse Food
(This post is part of the Ask an Apocalypse Author series. Credentials are at the end of the post. If you have suggested topics, please leave them in the comments.) Let me say this right off the bat: I'm not going to teach you how to feed yourself long-term in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. If that's… Continue reading Apocalypse Food
What Is A Bug Out Bag?
(This post will become part of the Ask an Apocalypse Author series. Credentials are at the end of the post. If you have suggested topics, please leave them in the comments.) A bug-out bag, or BOB, is a good for anyone to keep around, especially those who live with the strong possibility of natural disaster.… Continue reading What Is A Bug Out Bag?
In Case of Fire, Don’t Be Shy
Let me tell you a story. I used to work as a dog-walker/cat-sitter/chicken-feeder/iguana-nurse. (I signed up for the dog-walking part, and the rest just happened.) One day, I was walking one of my favorite dogs, Oliver, and saw smoke coming up out of the ground. It had been unusually hot and dry, and the mulch… Continue reading In Case of Fire, Don’t Be Shy
