On January 1st, 2014, I posted the following to my Facebook: 2011 wasn’t great, so on January 1, 2012 I was all “bring it on, New Year.” 2012 was worse, so on January 1, 2013, I was all “Woo! Done with that!” 2013 has been the worst year of my adult life. This year,…
Category: Our Story
On Shirtgate, and the response thereto.
Let me begin by stating that this is Frog writing, not Esther, and my thoughts are not necessarily our thoughts. This one is all me, she can respond if she so chooses. The shirt thing is getting crazy. There’s an inflationary thing the internet does, where one person has a thought that might make coherent sense, and it is…
The Best Writing Advice I Ever Received, or This Article Is Full Of It
For a website supposedly devoted to helping writers become authors, they certainly have a really strange way of showing it. In the summer of 2012, we had just submitted Grace Under Fire for consideration. We attended Spocon, where the madness began. There, I received the greatest piece of writing advice ever given to me. For those of you…
A Response to the Criticism of Scorpion
I am a genius. When I was a child, I was called “gifted.” My IQ was abnormally high, and I had the ability to master mathematical skills and language arts that exceeded most of my peers. I still do. Saying it sounds arrogant, sounds like I’m just a smug bastard, but it is simply true….