Writer’s Block, creative constipation, artist’s block – whatever you want to call it – is a big problem for writers, artists, musicians, and creative professionals. Some people say that ‘writer’s block’ doesn’t really exist – that you aren’t trying hard enough, don’t have a good routine, are quitting, etc. Others, including many suffering writers of… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Philosophy
Into Darkness: SOPA/PIPA and Democracy
This website isn’t being blacked out during the SOPA/PIPA protests, because blacking it out would be inconsequential – it doesn’t get enough traffic to really make a point. The point it needs to make is this: SOPA/PIPA is another step towards corporate control of governments and populations, and it needs to stop. Now. SOPA, as… Continue Reading
Genre Fiction: May Contain Queer
At risk of further alienating my straight male and female audiences (don’t worry, there’s stuff for you all as well!), I am here today to rant about one of my greatest passions/peeves – the way in that people generally expect genre fiction to be automatically heterosexual in theme, whereas ‘LGBT fiction’ is not fiction which… Continue Reading
The Shell Guarding the Void: A Response to Luke Romyn’s ‘The Illusion of the Tough Guy’.
This started as a comment to Luke Romyn’s fabulous blog post, The Illusion of the Tough Guy, a raw and fast reflection on his own experiences in the security industry. As a newcomer to that industry, I don’t want to go telling my grandmother to suck eggs (in a manner of speaking), but this is… Continue Reading