Deep Sky Anchor

I’ve now watched Rick & Morty twice through, and I find Beth’s arc deeply healing. I’ve been craving stories where women kill their terrible fathers, instead of forgiving and connecting with them…

And it didn’t do that, but it gave me something… better. Continue reading “Beth’s Arc”

For years, I’ve blamed myself for being too shy or cowardly, and not trying hard enough to network back when I went to sf/f cons… but DAMN, watching all the threads in sf/f twitter today, that was not my fault. It wasn’t that I was too shy…

I just had an obvious husband with me (who was supportive but not really into sf/f); so as a young woman I was basically invisible to a significant fraction of the men who were setting the tone at social events. Continue reading “Being Invisible”

The book I’m writing was not supposed to drip so heavily with symbolism!!!!

I planned this book last August, and the main characters were always intended to end up on a water-filled space station where they’d need breathing masks. Continue reading “Accidentally Predictive Fiction”

Let’s talk about why Toy Story 4 is awesome!

The main points of this talk will be:

—Toy Story 3 had a terrible end Continue reading “Toy Story 4”

My dad is an emotionally abusive jerk. My mom spent twenty years sublimating her own needs to protect me and my sister from him.

‪From this, my sister seems to have learned that mothers should be self-sacrificing saints with no needs or feelings of their own.‬

‪I have kids now… you do the math.‬ Continue reading “Unfortunate Family Dynamics”

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”