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Neurology and the #WritingCommunity

So I wanted to do a post today RE Western Society & the Cult of mediocrity and it making people unable to understand spectrums or statistics. But I’ll save that for some other time (why, yes, I did just do that so I won’t forget. You may get a biscuit

Your Hypocrisy About “Realistic” Teens in YA: Why Do You Hate Us For Being Too Much of a Teenager, but Also Too Much of an Adult?

Forever and Everly

Oh, hi, just me with another discussion post!

I feel like I haven’t written a proper discussion in a long time!! (Whether or not I actually have is besides the point, it’s been established that I have a terrible memory.) I just keep drafting different ones and then ditching them when I lose my steam.

But this topic is something I’ve been seeing around in the book community for a while now, mainly in different reviews of diff...

Now & Forever: A literary analysis

You know, if you look closely at my Now & Forever series there’s some very interesting symbolism in there when you know what to look for*.

I mean take the girls, Sally & Lauren. They probably represent the world and America**!

Sally, obviously, is the world. Besides the obvious answers of being able to claim citizenship of three nations while growing up in a fourth, and being a polyglot, she’s the worldly one so experienced in foreign cultures and scenery. She’s also the utterly unconservativ...

World building

I admit, Now & Forever doesn’t have a lot of actual world building … the beauty of setting it in a couple years back America. I even get the school calendar & course list (yes, including the yoga and the UWA math courses) from an actual Catholic high school from the region of WA the stories are set. When you can cheat, do it with enthusiasm.

That’s not to say I don’t have SF/F fiction that isn’t published yet.

Also, I’m a gamer.

World building checklists and worksheets are, as with characters...

Today in stupid advice

100%. You need to know what's current in your own genre + read outside your genre + read books that inspire you to level up. Stephen King advised reading 4 hours a day and writing 4 hours a day in ON WRITING, and I took it to heart. https://t.co/p2bziFcuh8

— Delilah S. Dawson (@DelilahSDawson) January 1, 2019

I can’t even pretend to be polite about this. It’s ridiculous.

Yes, some of the greatest SF/F writers out there love to read SF/F, some don’t.

As a writer you should love to read. If...

Romantic Inclusivity

Now, I’ve said before that Romance is not a genre I’m well acquainted with. It mostly bores me and drives me up a wall.

To be fair I do watch good rom-coms like Imagine Me & You, But I’m a Cheerleader, For a Good Time Call …, Pretty Woman, etc.

But it isn’t something I read I’ve tried but I can’t get into it.

I realised today, thanks to @NeolithicSheep just what the problem I have is.

She decided to tweet-stream a book. And I mean zero criticism to the charming Comrade Shepherd herself; she’s...

Mental health, medication, and creativity

So, apparently (read: according to my wife), it’s a Thing (read: trending a bit on Twitter) to claim that untreated mental illness is a font for creativity.

Holy wow.

Okay. To be fair, sometimes it very well may be. There are those whose art IS their mental illness, or more precisely their illness is the inspiration for their art. For these folks, I suppose, it’s reasonable to assume treating the illness may hamper their art. Would Stephen King write the horrors he does if he were medicated t...

More Sports Journalism!

I tried to live-tweet a hockey game tonight. It was, unfortunately, actually the lead up to a hockey game that started after I was ready to go. But I did my best.

There is possibly a #sport happening! I will live-tweet it if so.
It looks like a #hockey. So far they’ve shown a pretty talky lady with a mic, Ms Arena (I didn’t catch first name started with A) and lots of skating by a Black & Yellow team with a B on their shirts

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Patreon

I have a Patreon now.

https://www.patreon.com/JayeEdgecliff

It has a single tier: $1+ and it gets you my gratitude.

I am planning to update it so there’s a tier that gets early release access and other benefits but right now I’m not up to working that sort of thing out (I’ve not been feeling well).

Tumblr

So, Tumblr is instituting a rather draconian adult content ban.

Some examples?

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A blogpost from Tumblr suggesting its ban is actually on female bodies.

https://twitter.com/sketchshark/status/1069719613041078272?s=21

I'm so done with @tumblr right now you gaiz. pic.twitter.com/KmGVD5RdYv

— Tess Fowler (@TessFowler) December 3, 2018

ping pong: too horny pic.twitter.com/0VAmcgIOgs

— merry lexxmas (@Lexxercise) December 3, 2018

2 lewd 4 tumblr: pic.twitter.com/8GuLtrPafQ

— Juby