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Weekends should be 3 or 4 days long. I should be living in a Scandinavian country. Free healthcare, too.

SciFiction folds Dammit

I need to write 40 pages this weekend, and need to spend this morning going back over my characters and making them more sympathetic. The problem with doing a brutal blood and sand novel is that you start to forget everybody’s humanity. That’s a problem. It also makes the entire story more interesting when everybody’s

And Barbie isn’t traumatizing? heh heh (thanks, B)

.. that I’ve just written 20 pages of crap. le sigh

Whew boy, I sure do owe them a shitload. How do I overspend myself like this? I mean, yea, I’ll square it at month’s end, but sweet lord, all those plane tickets added up.

It’s so sexy when a college boy tells me what I think. It gets me all hot and fired up. I love all the research that went into this piece. I love all the women he talked to, the surveys he sent out, the data he collected, the… oh no? You mean he’s just telling

I put myself on the scale the other day at the gym and was elated to learn that I weighed 195 lbs. Because I’m a chronic weight-obsessed person (less so now, as I get older and more confident), I’d been thinking for the last year that I was about 20 lbs heavier. When I look

Mistress Krista is reading The Wimp Factor: Gender Gaps, Holy Wars, and the Politics of Anxious Masculinity. The main argument being that men’s fear of women makes men more conservative. Hm. First let me throw out the term “femiphobia” as a way of naming this anxiety. Femiphobia is the male fear of being feminine. The

Here’s Touched By Venom(!) a new fantasy novel, teaching us all to Respect the Cock: Right away, I noticed their erections. Truth, I’d been looking for them, as had Waisi and Kobo’s twins, Rutvia and Makvia. All four of us poked each other and tittered. Behind us, Mother yanked on Waisi’s and the twin’s braids