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• Year Zero and Other Observations

  
  Biblia Hebraica — Authority: 516
  Tis the season when Christmas music has taken over the airwaves at home, at the mall, and in the car. While struggling to manage a semblance of holiday cheer, I have three somewhat random observations (i.e., pet peeves) inspired by things Ive heard said in various Christmas songs. 1. THERE IS NO YEAR ZERO . ...
  2 days ago

• Are we there yet?

  
  Author! Author! — Authority: 120
  No, that’s not a computer-generated image of post-global warming penguin habitat; that’s what happens when your humble hostess’ hand slips while her mouse is on the brightness slider in iPhoto whilst playing with a picture she took of a neighbor’s holiday decorations. I rather like the result. But let it be ...
  3 days ago

• Writer’s Wednesday : Pet peeves.

  
  On A Limb with Claudia — Authority: 122
  What can I say? I spend my days with words and have developed a few pet peeves. Here’s an incomplete list ALL RIGHT not alright A LOT not alot. “He said, ‘toast’.” OK Any number that is written like this: 8, instead of like this: eight, is going to stop the reader’s eye. The word ’said’ should ...
  4 days ago

• Excising redundant dialogue, or, there’s a reason Chatty Cathy is not the world’s best-selling doll

  
  Author! Author! — Authority: 120
  Last time, I eased our discussion of self-editing for pace toward that graveyard of many a promising manuscript submission and contest entry, problematic dialogue. Through the subtle means of showering you with example after example, I sought to nudge you, gently, into an appreciation of just how annoying redundant, ...
  4 days ago

• What I Don’t Like/My Pet Peeves

  
  Ginny's Thoughts & Things — Authority: 430
  Just ’cause I just wanna get it off my chest… Being called hon, honey, baby, sweetheart, sweetie, or any other term of endearment by someone I don’t even know! It’s one thing if it’s my friend or family or someone I know, but when it’s someone I don’t even know, I kind of feel it to be a violation of ...
  4 days ago

• Pet Peeve: Insulting Others Christmas Letters

  
  Deo Gratias! — Authority: 408
  Just a public declaration that I LIKE TO READ FRIENDS CHRISTMAS LETTERS! Why do so many people make fun of Christmas letters? Friends and family are scattered far and wide. I do care what their kids are up to. I do want to know who is retiring or who is buying a new house. Just because I do not keep up with ...
  4 days ago

• HP Whites Only Face-Tracking Webcam

  
  All About Race — Authority: 417
  So it turns out that HP’s face tracking webcams only work with white folks. Bwahahahaha. “Technology is colorblind” in your face. Check it out via Current.com : Make sure you watch until near the end. Turns out “Black Desi” has a surprise for his wife to boot. HP responds: “We are working with ...
  5 days ago

• More of those telling details lifted from real life, or, well-mannered camel seeks wiser man

  
  Author! Author! — Authority: 120
  Last time, in the midst of indulging my passion for telling details, I forgot to tell you about my recent holiday encounter with the camel pictured above. If this isn’t a story where the specifics provide all of the characterization needed…well, I let you judge for yourself. While you’re at it, why not ...
  6 days ago

• Details that tell it all, or, leaving on a jet plane

  
  Author! Author! — Authority: 120
  Throughout December, in case you hadn’t noticed, I’ve been concentrating on craft issues, the nitty-gritty business of constructing and polishing a narrative. Specifically, because my magic bloggers’ antennae tell me that quite a few of you are planning to query and/or submit right after the new year (or, if ...
  6 days ago

• Am I hallucinating, or is the screen going wavy again?

  
  Author! Author! — Authority: 120
  Did any of you sharp-eyed self-editors happen to catch the really, really subtle test of your conceptual editing skills cleverly concealed in yesterday’s post ? Nobody left a comment about it, so I assume nobody noticed. Or perhaps those who did were merely too kind to point it out. Any guesses? If your hand ...
  1 week ago

• Let’s hear it one more time! (Or maybe not.)

  
  Author! Author! — Authority: 120
  Did my odd mid-week hiatus leave you wondering if I had slipped off for some holiday merry-making? No such luck; just swamped with work. That, and being comatose with depression over some recent news, international, national, and personal. I doubt 2009 is a year I shall remember fondly. Or that writers in general ...
  1 week ago

• Babies and Babysitters…Two Posts In One. Aren’t You Lucky?!

  
  Rock And Drool — Authority: 124
  On how babies are made…again: Remember when I wrote about my youngest son asking me how babies are made? I can’t find the dang post to link to. But I told him that Mommies and Daddies have a special hug and it puts a baby in the Mommies tummy. That’s the story I have given all my children until they were ...
  1 week ago

• Off With Her Hair!

  
  Popular Fidelity — Authority: 519
  Lamya Cammon, like most first grade students, can get a little annoying.  After all, she’s a little kid, and while they have a concept of the word no, they don’t really get it, nor do they really pay attention when you repeat to them, over and over, to stop being obnoxious.  That’s why when Lamya wouldn’t ...
  1 week ago

• "Youre A Really Shitty Christian And God Hates You"

  
  Library Grape — Authority: 480
  I got to talking with a friend of mine yesterday (a gay Catholic - explain that one to me) and happened upon one of my oldest and most favorite grievances. Shitty Christians. As everyone knows by now, Im a pretty rabid antitheist. But just because I generally dislike religion and all its accoutrements doesnt mean ...
  1 week ago

• The Airing Of Grievances

  
  A Life Less Ordinary — Authority: 117
  In keeping with the spirit of Festivus (’tis the season), here’s some stuff that’s been bugging me lately: The amount of times I am asked for money lately*. Every time I turn around someone is asking me for money. Lil’ M brings home fund-raising stuff for school every five seconds, any charity I ever ...
  1 week ago

• It’s Not Tiger Woods’ Fault

  
  Mary Schmidt Marketing Troubleshooter — Authority: 117
  I couldn’t care less with whom Tiger Woods sleeps…of course, I feel badly for his wife…but ultimately his life is none of my business .  And so we come to the Accenture “ brand problem.”   For Accenture, the corporate consultancy that on Sunday announced it would discontinue its six-year relationship ...
  1 week ago

• The barbarians at the gate, the elephant in the room, and other reasons not to set at naught the rules of standard format and punctuation

  
  Author! Author! — Authority: 120
  Here’s one more piece of evidence, if you needed it, for the Literary Times, They Are A-changin’ file: THE NEW YORKER has announced that it will not be running its second fiction issue of the year in favor of a “World Changers” special edition. Because it’s not as though any other magazine covers people ...
  1 week ago

• Grinching And Bitching At The Dept., So If Youre The Least Bit Merry, You Might Want To Skip This Post Until Youve Had Way More Eggnog

  
  Dept. of Nance — Authority: 106
  O h, Heavy Sigh. Today I am valiantly trying to have Christmas Spirit , and no one is helping me. Honestly, what the hell is my problem, anyway? Christmas is not like Easter, a holiday which randomly occurs by some incomprehensible formula devised by ecclesiastical calculations based upon...exactly what, ...
  2 weeks ago

• What was that again? Or, I did not know it then, but a Gila monster was about to come of a clear blue sky and change my life forever

  
  Author! Author! — Authority: 120
  I passed through two different airports today, my friends — more travel on behalf of the Grumpy Relative, who continues to ail, alas — so I can state with authority that metal detectors in at least two states are cranked up farm far past normal levels of scrutiny. How do I know? Because in both airports, rows of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Counter-Intuitive Marketing

  
  Mary Schmidt Marketing Troubleshooter — Authority: 117
  I’m prejudiced (since I love dead-tree publishing in all its forms)…but…as Elissa Altman notes, “it is no surprise that the counter-intuitive is what bubbles to the surface.” The reason traditional publishers are having problems is that they’re thinking…traditionally. MUST Sell LOTS of ad pages. ...
  2 weeks ago

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