Month: May 2020

I’ve started rereading Jane Austen’s novels, and I just want to point out: she uses exclamation points & all caps ALL over the place!

Exclamation points & all caps may be horribly out of fashion in fiction these days, but Austen is a master. Editors can get over themselves. Continue reading “Italics and Exclamation Points”

God it feels good to no longer have a vested interest in a market that’s been treating me badly for a month and a half.

This is my fourth original sale (out of 172) to fall through; the other three were due to markets themselves going under. Continue reading “Fighting for Good Contracts”

What it is like when my spouse and I run routine emails past each other to check they’re okay:

—debate regarding relative merits of long sentences & short ones
—Finnegan’s Wake compared to a banana taped to a wall
—double slit experiment involving bananas
—what were we doing?

A couple weeks ago, I heard the memory of a line echo in my head, but I couldn’t place it. I thought maybe it was from Grey’s Anatomy… or a Jane Austen movie…‬

‪Now I think it’s from Remember WENN. But I can’t check. I can’t share it with my kids. I can’t relive it.‬ Continue reading “Remember WENN and Grief”