Page Turner's Blog, page 45

How I Write Even Though I Have Aphantasia and 8 Other Questions You Asked

Hey folks,

First of all, thank you so much to everyone who picked up a copy of Psychic City, the first book in a new series, the Psychic State mysteries. And an extra special thank you to everyone who left a review afterwards (seriously, it helps other people find the book).  » Read more

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It’s Not Always Easy to Manage Lockdown, But We Do Our Best

It’s not easy to celebrate big occasions in the middle of a pandemic. But we do our best.

We usually make do with something small. A box of strawberry cake mix and a cannister of cream cheese frosting that have magically wound our way here through the miracle that is online shopping.

Or my strange pandemic birthday that occurred just a short while into lockdown (I’m an Aries).  » Read more

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“As a Good Christian, I Can’t Understand How You Can Do That & Be a Good Person”

“As someone who was raised Christian,” she says, “I can’t understand why you are the way you are, especially because you seem like such a good person.”

It’s not the first time someone has said something like this to me. Not by a long shot. But it’s still funny to hear… because I was raised Christian,  » Read more

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Most of My Friends Think the World Is Ending

I still don’t quite understand how I push through difficult days. There have been more of them lately.

Today is a really hard day by the way. The day I’m writing this, I mean (it’ll come out later, as nearly all of my posts do; I write them and schedule them later).

I had a good weekend,  » Read more

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I Know How to Comfort Myself. But I Wish I Didn’t Have to.

I’ve never quite gotten the hang of comforting myself. It’s not for lack of trying. Not for lack of practice.

It’s strange, really, since I’ve been a comforting person to so many people. I’ve been the one dropping everything to help a lover work through an issue. The one you could literally wake up in the middle of the night and talk to about your nightmares.  » Read more

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It Takes Two (or More) People to Break Up Well… And Sometimes It Takes a Little Time

“I honestly don’t know what I expected out of polyamorous people, but you guys aren’t at all what I thought you’d be like.”

I laugh. “What do you mean by that?”

“Don’t take it the wrong way,” she says.

“I’m not offended or anything. I just want to understand what you’re talking about.  » Read more

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Beware the Autocorrect Gnome of Listening

Ah autocorrect. Scourge of the Internet. Sometimes it’s helpful; other times it’s certainly not. It changes what you were trying to say into something either incomprehensible or insulting to the other person.

Lovely.

They say that if you ever get frustrated with autocorrect, you should pretend there’s a little gnome in there correcting your work.  » Read more

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What Is New Relationship Anxiety?

We talk a lot about New Relationship Energy in polyamory, that feeling of euphoria you experience when you start a new relationship. Colors are brighter. Food tastes better. You may have a decreased need for sleep, for food. These cognitive shifts cause you to feel like your new partner can do no wrong.  » Read more

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Can a Love Ever Really Grow Bigger Than It’s Supposed To?

What do you do with a love that grows bigger than it’s allowed to?

I have a giant heart. So my love? It doesn’t stay small. It grows big. Sometimes it seems like my love grows and grows until a barrier comes in and stops it. That if those barriers weren’t in place that my love would grow forever.  » Read more

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Being Selfish, Combative & Manipulative Will NOT Help You Get Ahead at Work

There’s a certain stereotype of professional success — a cartoonishly selfish figure that has no qualms stepping on other people to climb the corporate ladder.

But is being Machiavellian really an effective method of getting ahead at work? People have been arguing about this for ages. (Literal ages, because ancient philosophers argued about this,  » Read more

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