Category Archives: Formative Wonk

Rock Bottom Writing

One of the things I asked the father of my son, during the conversation where I told him I was pregnant and he told me, “I’m sure you’ll be an excellent mom and I wish you the best,” was about … Continue reading

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Virtual Shelves, Meta That Matters, and Shades of Should

There are sort of two posts in one today, but they’re related and the second block of thought is pretty short, so…just FYI. A couple of weeks ago, Laura Bradford tweeted a single line from a book, Erasing Sherlock, that … Continue reading

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I have no idea what I’m doing.

Take a look in your forgotten story drawer. Just open it up, and rifle through the text. Deeper. Older. There you go. Back there. Way in the back, that story that’s maybe barely in there any more, the one on … Continue reading

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