Tag: rant
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Comments and our tech Overlords
Musing on the utility of website and social comments as a way of engaging with your audience, a reaction to Show Your Work By Austin Kleon
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The Cinnamon-roll Version of Simon Snow
Book Review of Ever After by FT Lukens – A mini chocolate bar of a book, sweet short and forgotten an hour later.
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NaNoWriMo 2024
How did the National Novel Writing Month Challenge go for me in 2024, and what did I learn from the experience about novel writing
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Internal Monologues Suck
Review of the Spells we Cast by Jason June in which I discuss the use of the internal monologue (or character interiority) and the ways its misused.
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Just a great big Nope
A quick rant about a dreadful book
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Space Archaeology is a Thing
An essay exploring whether space archaeology is a real thing and whether this is an acceptable descriptions for this research.
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Middle Book Syndrome
Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse I loved the first book in this series Black Sun and have been waiting excitedly for more than 1 year to get a ebook copy of Fevered Sun. Sadly, on its own, its not really worth the wait. It suffers a solid case of second / middle book syndrome; it…
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It’s not as queer as they want you to think
Rant: Loki TV-Series by Marvel In a recent argument a friend insisted that Marvel’s Loki was queer-coded and I looked at her – on the basis of having watched maybe 3 Marvel movies in the last 10 years – in astonishment. So I recently paid my poundage and tuned into the Loki TV-series, mostly to…
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Gaimen is Over-rated
Gaimen is over-rated, a book rant about American Gods