he has concepts of a plan

I see this and keep thinking “iPad Pro”

I'm on a lot of theatre email lists and one thing that CONSTANTLY amazes me is how hostile new show announcements are to non-traditional theatre types like me.

It's always "A new production of X!!! Starring Y and Z!!!"

And I'm like: That's cool but maybe tell me what the play is actually about?

How do you divorce your love of writing from publication?

Signed, the rejections are getting me down

"I have a concept of a plan for a novel" is what non-writers say to me at cocktail parties when they want me to write their novel for them.

Good morning. Bring me your finest right wing tears, frantic op-eds, industrial-grade copium, etc. Surely there is a post-debate reaction roundup somewhere

anybody can start a podcast. my goal *pulling out a sword* is to stop one

Something that caught my eye this morning while researching dime novels: 24 of the first 40 dime novels published were written by women. Women writers were more important to the establishment and success of the dime novel than male writers were.

Which isn't what the standard histories tell you.

Bear knowledge

“Mrs. H. J. Goetzman with cat?” Ca. 1894-1905. collections.library.yale.edu/catalog/2011...