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OAT: How not to be categorized
It would be far too easy to let writerly competitiveness and an ugly green-eyed monster interfere with celebrating author Rebecca Morean’s successful year. Fortunately, Becky is such a gracious, caring, and giving person that those of us honored to know her and to work with her through the Antioch Writers’ Workshop are first in line…
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I Hate Women’s Fiction And I’ll Tell You Why
Originally posted on Tara Sparling writes: Hey, you! Yes, you there, with the marketing degree! Or you, Creative Director with that massive advertising agency; hell, even you, person who spends more time than is healthy shouting at the TV when terrible ads come on, because you could do better. (Four monkeys with bad head colds could…
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Let’s keep talking, shall we?
During last week’s “Introspection,” I briefly referred to microaggressions, any discussion of which leads to trigger warnings, a separate but intricately related issue. A kind reader reminded me of a September 2015 article from The Atlantic, “The Coddling of the American Mind,” that made the round in the academic circles and elsewhere when it came…
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Introspection time…how do you think?
Pardon me, please, while I wax philosophical. I’m so terribly out of sorts these days. The media-fueled and politician-stoked fear of any “Other” who doesn’t look like the predominant U.S. version of a “real” American weighs heavily on my psyche. And when paranoid, xenophobic posts show up in my Facebook timeline or Twitter feed from…
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A glimmer of hope
With the endless presidential campaigning in the US and the politicization of any and every news item, media negativity has reached a tipping point – at least in my life. I can’t take it anymore. More than once I’ve considered a lengthy social media vacation, but the tentacles of a writing life require a regular…
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OAT: Back to the future with Wild Raspberries
In the spirit of this week’s Back to the Future memorials (Marty McFly arrived on the 21st!), this week’s Other Author Thursday is on Saturday. Okay, it’s really because life got in the way and I missed my self-imposed deadline, but it’s for a good cause: Local author Connie Chappell will share from her May 2015 release…
CL Pauwels at Large 