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A Week After New Years, we get to the 2015 Roundup

Work’s been BUSY. I’ll talk about the New Star Wars in another post. But First, the Reading Challenge:

A Trilogy – Eh, take your pick between the Metawars 4 pack or the Maze Runner 4 pack. I know: not a trilogy. I didn’t finish book 4 of metawars prior to 2016 though. Both were YA adventure series, I think aimed at boys. I could go on and on about Cliffhangers and how I’m not impressed, but the big thing that irked me was how much blatant hero worship for the MC there were in both series.

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Another Nano Failure… Sorta

So here we are and Ciage (me) is barely over the halfway mark.

If I wasn’t able to produce 50k in a month regularly, I might be worried. I very seldom do, but rather than those people with their set schedules for writing, I’ve always had to flex and adapt. So besides the main project (see below) I got work done on that kiddie sequel as well as a bit more on that fantasy I’ve been doing hard copy (basically writing it in an old journal for ten mintues here and there randomly). So nothing done,...

Write Here, Write Now (Oh. The. Puns)

So for the record – cheater over here for her nano, has officially worked towards two projects, both of which I started prior to November. Keeping track of word count is a bit of a trick, but it’s not a big deal so long as I ignore the urge to go back and start editing – then I don’t know the exact word count. New projects – well, if I decide I want to go out and take a paragraph out – I know it’s all new.

So one’s a novella, and the other is a sequel to a kids’ book. It’s mostly been the no...

Nanowrimo, Self Pubbing, C4 Comic Con, and Where I’m at

So it’s been a crazy few weeks – let’s just say that life marches on with EMS, and I’ve been happily getting all the OT I want since about, oh, Mid May. A little burnt out, but since my goals have been predominantly getting my finances in order to get that down payment, I can deal with a little bit of that.

I mentioned last year that I was going to self-publish, then chickened out. I still have the cover – my sister is still reading it and giving me feedback. I’m tempted to move ahead with a...

Reading Update

This is getting trickier and trickier as we go along, mostly because I got loaned a bunch of books I need to return, plus I was kind of sick last month (as in, still not 100% but this is best I’ve felt since before the end of August). I’ve read more than what’s on the list, but figured I should at least update this and keep it kind of legit. I know it’s screwed up but I don’t care enough to go back and figure out who and what. I have more books sitting on my shelf that will finish my year off...

Strong Female Characters Part 5: Tokenism and Final Thoughts

I’ve been trying to give both specific and generic examples in the past few posts. Obviously I can’t go into everything – and I don’t want anyone to think that if they wrote something I kvetched about it is a ‘I hate it I hate you graaaargh.’ It’s more of an in general rant, but there’s stories that use cliches and they’re deconstructions, or the writing is that good that I don’t care. It’s like the Bechdel test – failing doesn’t mean that the work sucks. The movie Gravity fails, but there’s...

Strong Female Characters Part 4- I’ll get you, my pretty!

Sorry for the delay – I wrote most of this a while ago, but this flue/bronchitis will not let up. I finally have paid real money for real medicine, as well as gone to the health store for a placebo. I have no way to determine a control group, but I’d like the other medics to stop looking at me like a test subject for chest auscultation if we get a student. You can hear it without a stethoscope, grumble grumble.

A few months ago I read an article about Why Fiction Needs more “Ugly” Heroines. T...

If I’m Being Honest: Strong Female Characters Part 3: Slut Shaming and Dressing for Empowerment

Sorry for the delay – I’m having what I’m going to call a flu turned bronchitis. I keep waiting for days when I’m more coherent. NOPE. And I was going to tackle beauty here too, but this is a big topic, and walls of text are scary, so expect beauty in a day or so.

Let’s first define slut shaming. I’m not going to talk about the politics of The Scarlet Letter, the tragedy of Dido or even the redemption of Fantine. That stuff is above my pay grade for starters, and there’s no way in this artic...

Strong Female Characters, Part 2: Oppression, Oppressors, and Aha! A Plot!

Sorry for the delay – I’m finally getting over that flu, and I basically took three days off to go camping/kayaking. Yes, I was sick for it but the weather’s been beautiful, and I can stand the fresh air when I’m hacking. And I was getting ready to post, and then work called and I can’t say no to the easy money.

I’m not in women’s studies and know very little about other cultures. For the sake of this article, oppression will be beyond gender roles, to the point where a person is effected eit...

Strong Female Characters – If I’m to be completely honest: Part 1

I’m going to start out by saying that I’m odd.

I could talk about how I used to play video games, my inspirations for writing came from the old-school style pulp science fiction novels, but that’s really window dressing.

My reasoning for the disclaimer is that my Myers-Briggs Profile is INTJ – and as a female, this is the second least-common personality profile in the population. It’s not a bad thing; common INTJ traits often lead the vast majority of the population to think we’re highly int...