Estimated Reading Time: 3 MinutesWriting as passion vs. hobby; episodes that inspiring me; best and worst writing advice I’ve encountered; selecting a fic that would have worked well on film.
Estimated Reading Time: 6 MinutesWhat are the Extraordinary Form Traditionalists afraid will happen if we have multiple Mass forms — and do they realize that the Latin-Rite (Roman) Catholic Church has almost always had them?
Estimated Reading Time: 5 MinutesDiscussing a weakness; sharing favorite snippets of prose and dialogue (with the reasons why); and listing which of my fics have (so far) been the hardest and easiest to write.
Estimated Reading Time: 4 MinutesIt used to be that conservatives understood my positions. But now, they’ve moved right, and that contributes to centrists like me gradually being left out of the discourse altogether.
Estimated Reading Time: 4 MinutesI haven’t moved to the right. If it looks like I have on a particular issue, chances are good that I’ve always been there. The liberals, however, have moved to the left.
Estimated Reading Time: 4 MinutesI remember the exact moment when I realized everything around me was about to change.
Estimated Reading Time: 5 MinutesI had hoped to simply sit NaNoWriMo out for a few years until it got through its growing pains. But it’s become clear that it is no longer an organization that I can support at all.
Estimated Reading Time: 5 MinutesDescribing my comfort zone; discussing tropes I do and don’t want to write; answering a question about upcoming ideas; and sharing a strength.
Estimated Reading Time: 2 MinutesIf I had to give a one-sentence evaluation of my writing during August 2024, I think I’d say something along the lines of, “you win some, you lose some.” But it hasn’t been enough to discourage me; rather, it has given me a reason to keep my momentum going.
Estimated Reading Time: 5 MinutesI felt horribly guilty for over a decade after my father died, which had reverberations for a significant part of my life. But I did not feel guilty after my mother’s death earlier this year. Neither of those means I’m doing it wrong.