Burblings
In which I prove that absolutely anything can be made nerdy if you try hard enough...
On worldbuilding: Susan Mallery and the rich world of Fool’s Gold, California
2018 was the year I got hooked on romance novels. I don’t know about you, but I was raised with a general attitude of scorn towards all things romance-novel-y. My mom called them “bodice-rippers” and wouldn’t have been caught dead reading one, so, even though I’m a grown-ass woman who can (surely!) make up her…
Read More“To fist” or not “to fist,” that is the question
Sometimes word choices are technically correct…but they just plain bug me. Case in point: last year I read a couple of books where the word “fisted” was used as a verb. Frequently. Noticeably often. It really bothered me. I couldn’t think of a single instance where I’d seen the word “fisted” used as a verb…
Read MoreFrom the archives: Transformation
I wrote this poem for my old blog, Spirit Moves Dance, in 2012. The blog is gone, but the poem remains. It will not always feel good, This growing. This stretching beyond the boundaries of the known, The comfortable. It will not always feel safe, This learning and relearning of your own abilities This reexamining…
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