Good Afterevenmorn, Readers!

This is the last of the rants related to my misguided venture back into social media (must try and market, you know?) that resulted in several eyebrow-raising arguments in the bookish corner of those spaces.

This last one is perhaps most forgivable, and could be chalked up to not paying attention in English class, and perhaps not being especially well read. Clearly the original poster was not aware of certain literary devices (and maybe English in general).

It still raised my brows, however. Let’s dive in.

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Good afterevenmorn, Readers!

I have returned with the next issue of me yelling into the aether (the literacy crisis series), engendered by four simultaneous fights I witnessed on social media a couple of weeks ago. This one appears to be the most controversial, for reasons I cannot fathom.

Big words.

Let’s talk about it, shall we?

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Good afterevenmorn Readers!

This is going to be a personal post, brought on by the various, incredibly depressing discussions around A.I. and artistic creation. As I’m primarily a writer, or, at least, I’m hoping to make a living as a writer. I draw and paint as well, but those are things I do mostly for me and I’m not trying to make a career of that. Perhaps more than one of you can relate to the state of, well, creation right now.

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Good afterevenmorn, Readers!

This one is for the writers out there. Also, I’d like to remind all the writers out there that any writing advice should be taken with a large grain of salt, and while the title does make it seem like I’m commanding thee to read non-fiction, you don’t have to. Of course. I just find that I get most of my inspiration for my fiction from non-fiction.

Very specifically, archaeology… Especially for fantasy (but it has its place in science fiction, too, as you’ll see).

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