law_keven / Foter I have been practicing forbearance as an art form lately. Really, if someone would have told me that adulthood was comprised of being calm and polite until one had a grip on the situation’s short hairs, then pulling hard while smiling sweetly, I would have been even more eager to get here. [...]

kevin dooley I find rollercoasters relaxing. It’s the moment when you’re strapped in and the thing starts moving, before it even chugs up the big initial hill. A lot of people think the point of no return is at the top of that first hill before the plunge. It’s not. It’s the moment the straps [...]

Paul Keheler / Foter I’m not a writer because it’s easy; screw those who think it is. I’m not a writer because I want to live some sort of privileged life, or because I want to be rich, or even because it’s the only thing I can do. I’m a writer because it’s challenging and [...]

Felice Beato / Foter Soldiers; she was a warrior, and the next few minutes would show the difference. –Saber and Shadow You know, I’d really go for hallucinogens if I hadn’t figured out how to jigger my brain chemistry into providing Technicolor narratives almost at will. Oh, sure, there are downsides–for example, dreaming in very [...]

Victor Bezrukov / Foter From my email inbox: Dear ms. St. Crow, I just finished reading Reckoning and was extremely curious about why Dru decided to not choose between Graves or Chritophe, I’m a little perplexed since I was in suspense about which boy would win Dru’s heart the whole series, and found myself heart [...]

ViaMoi / Foter After all, most texts have some problematic elements in them, because they’re produced by humans, who are well-known to be imperfect. But it can be surprisingly difficult to own up to the problematic things in the media you like, particularly when you feel strongly about it, as many fans do. We need [...]

Lemuel Montejo /Stock Photos I am telling you that if you are fighting I love you, if you are standing up I love you, if you are refusing to back down I love you, and we will find each other, we will. I promise. I can’t tell you how to make sense of it but [...]

Joseeivissa /Stock Photos Crossposted to the Deadline Dames. Check us out! I have a theory about corporations–I am certain it isn’t my theory, but I can’t dig up where it started. Anyway, the theory is this: after a certain point, a company stops acting like a group of disparate people who have a vision and [...]

Am home in a house full of flu and stomach flu this morning, so…yeah. This is just going to be a drive-by post. But a useful one. Captain Awkward this morning had a question: Why don’t our jerkbrains understand that the reward for staying in a terrible job is More Bad Job? (CAwkward) Which made [...]

I’m a winter writer. Endless gray, rainy days suit me very well. I like to sit and stare out the window, watching the sky weep, my brain tuned to that expectant humming that the next sentence will bring itself out of. Maybe this is why I have, whenever I could in my adult life, built [...]