Gillian Colbert's Blog, page 30

Exposing my Psyche

I have never successfully kept a journal. For as long as I can remember, I will go out and buy a beautifully bound book full of lovely blank pages just waiting for my deep and profound thoughts. I buy fountain pens with a rainbow of ink so that I can fit the color of the ink to my mood and then I sit down to write and …. nothing. Nothing comes to mind. The page just mocks me.

This has been going on since I was seven years old.

I've paid the price for this. I started a business memoir many...

Going Black on the 18th

In protest of SOPA, my blog will be going dark between 8am and 8pm Eastern Time on January 18. I'll be back and a post is ready and waiting, but I have to take a stand with all those opposed to this legislation. Till we meet again …

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Compulsive Theft

I"m late, I'm late … I feel like I've crossed through the looking glass, but I putting out my latest thieving caper for all you voyeurs! I hope everyone had a great weekend. Mine was good. I went to the shooting range and toyed around with a 9mm EMP and I took my baby girl to the driving range after we upgraded her clubs. She's almost as tall as me now!

Feel free to Steal Sunday with the rest of us.

21. Did you go to your high school prom?

I actually went to prom three times. I went to my...

I Wonder

Today's Friday, which means a post on sexuality of some kind, but the truth is that I'm in a very dark place today. After yesterday's post on the violence in my life that shaped me, I've been thinking about other areas of my life and how I've responded to them. I wonder is it possible to be shaped by something if you're not even sure it happened? I've walked around with a huge question about my life for many, many years and it's a question I'll never get an answer to. I've tried to write...

The Unfortunate Shape of Me

This post is going to be a little off topic for the theme of the blog. It's not about writing or BDSM, but something happened earlier this week that has bothered me ever since. You see I discovered a lovely new blog by a wonderful writer. I'm not going to name it, because I don't want the author to feel put on display as a result of this post. I'll have to pimp it out another time. Anyway … It's a personal blog. He writes about his life and his relationship in such lovely and romantic prose. ...

Unmotivated Writer Turns to Theft

Okay, I'm back at work after a two-day hiatus to work on my ghostwriting contract. The book is coming along, but now that I'm back at work I have over 100 pages of government solicitations to pore through and I just don't feel like it, so I've returned to my criminal ways and am once again Stealing Sunday several days late.

Cheers to all of us thieves!

1. Song that always makes you sad? 

When it comes to music there's never just one song with me, but the one that I cry through every time is "a

They Love Me, They Hate Me

"Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own" – Bruce Lee

After last weeks commotion with bashing reviewers, I got to thinking about the role of the review in my writing life. It may not be the same for everyone and that's fine. But, for me I like reviews of all kinds. But, one thing I have had to get used to as a writer is that there will always be someone who hates my writing. After I posted my first story, Coming Out of Her Shell, I waited on pins and needs...

The Fallacy of a Woman's Sexual Prime

Reach by Dabe Murphy on Flickr

At thirty-eight years old, I am supposedly entering my sexual prime. Now, I admit that I've become possessed by the hormones of an adolescent teenager and have sex on the brain a ridiculous amount of the time. However, I also notice a proportional rise in my desire to have another baby before I run out of time and then it hit me. The "sexual prime" for a woman is really just sneaky biology trying to get that last ditch effort in to use your eggs before they...

Bashing Reviewers

It was with true dismay that I read about the conflagration that has arisen on Goodreads and Twitter around a negative review of the book Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire. I've not read this book, based on the blurb and the reviews I have no intention of reading the book, so I cannot comment on the content or actual story. However, a Goodreads user who goes by the handle *Sophia* posted a highly-charged negative review of this book. To my utter horror, she has been personally attacked and ...

BDSM, Submission & Faith

Ties that Bind by TreMichLan on Flickr

A little while ago, I read a post by Cruel Intentions about submission within BDSM and its juxtaposition to Buddhism. I don't know anything about Buddhism, so I can't comment on that. However, what his post did get me thinking about is how faith and spirituality all require submission to a greater will or plan and how D/s is essentially the same thing. I don't consider myself religious or even spiritual; I'm much too self-centered as a rule. However, at o...