When I started this blog six months ago, I made a private deal with myself. “Self,” I said, “it might be very difficult to get a blog started. Maybe no one will read it for a long time, plus I might run out of things to write about. Plus I won’t want to write essays [...]
Posts Tagged ‘POV’
A Year of Meaning
Posted in Life, Writing, tagged blog, conversation, POV, writing on January 6, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Free Spirit Tells: Pierced Ears
Posted in Life, Society, tagged free spirit, ideas, POV on October 28, 2010 | 5 Comments »
I don’t have pierced ears. Where I live, it’s fairly unusual for a woman not to have pierced ears. Plus I grew up in a time when people pierced other body parts to show their nonconformity. (Or maybe to look sexy or funky or on the edge. I’m not sure since I never did it.) [...]
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast, or How to Have an Exciting Life
Posted in Life, tagged adventure, London, POV on August 18, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Once upon a time I lived in London, the United Kingdom. How did this happen? I was twenty-two years old, I held a fresh-off-the-presses Bachelors of Arts degree in Music, and I needed to get out of Dodge, Dodge being pretty much anywhere in California. What I wanted most of all was to live in [...]
Getting Men
Posted in Science fiction and fantasy, Writing, tagged fantasy, POV, stereotypes, writing on July 14, 2010 | 25 Comments »
Mark Charan Newton recently wrote a blog post entitled “Getting Women”. His provocative title caused me to click through and read what he had to say. He talks about having awareness while writing female characters in fantasy, and how he improved at avoiding stereotypes and portraying more realistic female characters in his latest novel. Having [...]
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