I’m about to start writing about The Morrigan again as we tick up our content here at The Cookie Crumbles. And I need to add a very special word about Unverified Personal Gnosis.

Folks, I'm sorry it's come to this, but I have no choice. Like most, I can no longer ignore the effects of inflation. I held off as long as I could, knowing that the economic future was—at best—rocky and mercurial. But I have succumbed as well to the rising cost of everything. I have to retire my $3 Patreon tier. …

Driving cars and writing. Totally different things right? Stephen King might be able to compare the process of character based writing to driving in the fog, but there's no way driving could be a ridiculously awesome extended metaphor for writing is there? Well, buckle up. Because yes there is.

“Dems are just as bad,” they say. You’re going to hear this a lot more in the next two years.

OR Would Someone Polyamorous Ever Date Someone Who Wasn't Question: If someone non-monogamous wanted to date a monogamous person, would they consider it? Would YOU consider it?  Short Answer: Not really. Unless you’re asking me out. But then, actually, probably not. Unless…  👀 Longer Answer: Okay, so it turns out that this is a place where there’s like a 99% answer, and then a brilliant rainbow of nuance in that 1%, so I’m going to drill down a little…(read on)

Blogust is an idea… a concept. It's not just an actual time. You can have Blogust in September. You can have winter Blogust. What's important is that you hold Blogust close to your heart. —Chris Cookie, probably

My uncle died on the night of September 8th.

For everything my stepfather was terrible about—and occasionally even abusive he was actually pretty decent at these little Pez-dispenser bits of wisdom.

It’s been a few years, but it’s time to renew a time-honored tradition of perhaps the worst play on words imaginable. (Except for maybe the joke about going to the dentist at 2:30 [tooth-hurty].) W…

The Internet is teeming with (often great) advice, but it’s all blobbed together. You get advice like “don’t comply in advance” in the same listicle as “learn gritty survival skills involving bowie kn...

A collection of the most shared posts from My Public Facebook Page. I do a lot of writing there at the moment. So I use a compilation (with some revision and editing) to fill a post once or twice a month.

Either these people dropping these comments don’t know how libraries work, or they don’t know what a company like Amazon does to make money off the efforts of writers. Fortunately, punching holes in this kind of shit is just exactly my wheelhouse, as long as folks let me put on my snarkiest cestus before my pugilism of ignorance-bashing begins. Also my sweatshop-calibre-overworked metaphors.

These are the brass tacks. The bare bones. The pulsing core of effective writing habits. Not opinions, style guides, prose advice, tricks, individual process, or the exaltation of a past generation’s language and culture, but the things that all effective writers have in common throughout the ages and across the world. These are things that every effective writer swears by. The things they all have in common with such predictable ubiquity as to be almost universal.

A while back, I saw a poster called “A to Zen of Life.” It had “Dalai Lama” written across it in cursive, so I know it was totally legit. (Even though he is also attributed with writing Einstein quotes. Of course, none of them were about writing, so I had to come up with my own list. Avoid negative people and habits, but don't confuse people who make you feel bad about negative habits with negative people, for those who call shenanigans on your shenanigans are more valuable than gold.

I see a lot of writers do this. They fixate on something like their new desk or their ergonomic keyboard, their new writing program that organizes their chapters for them

That's the whole reason this social media outreach is here at all: to get a few extra eyeballs (and maybe the occasional fan) on that blog…er…this blog. If it weren't for this blog, and the traffic that FB brings here, I would hang up all these puns and memes and go enjoy an extra five or ten hours a week doing almost anything else.

Why polyamory? Isn’t one person enough? Why would you want to do non-monogamy? Is this just a slick way to cheat? Why? But why polyamory? Why this poly thing? Why? Wherefore aren’t thou monogamous? Dost thou have trouble with commitment? What’s with the polyamory thing? Why? WHY???

1- Great writing involves great risk—the risk of terrible writing. Writing that involves no risk is merely forgettable—utterly. 2- When you fail—and you will totally fucking fail—don’t fail to learn. Then you can't really fail at all. That's the best way to approach writing… and life.

The Internet is teeming with (often great) advice, but it’s all blobbed together. You get advice like “don’t comply in advance” in the same listicle as “learn gritty survival skills involving bowie kn...

Part of this blog is leaning into a series about my exploits.  It’s about being an atheist in a growing existential crisis. It’s about a goddess I’d never heard of in a pantheon I…

A gratitude practice isn't going to polyana someone through chronic illness…injury…systematic injustice….or even just a REALLY bad time in their life.