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Dogs and Smurfs: Why women writers and stories about women are taken less seriously, by Max BarryIf you read, write, own a book, or have ever loved a story in your life, go read this immediately. Pulls the wool right off ( Read more... )

I am a fan of Neil Gaiman for many reasons, and this quote from his latest blog entry is one of them:

...please wish me luck with this short story I'm writing. I'm up to page 19 and nothing's happened yet. Right now, they're eating porridge. In my head, by this point in the story everyone was going to be terrified, and strange oogly things would ( Read more... )