I interviewed Karen Healey in this week's Sequential Tart. Read all about localization, research, and the surprisingly violent world of YA literature over here.

Ever have those conversations that make you go "Yes! This is why I work in the field that I do / feel passionate about what I feel passionate about!"?

I am having one right now, on Twitter, about intent in writing. It is AWESOME.

Guys, this is why the internet exists.

Occasionally, in the morass of internet humor amalgamation sites, you stumble across something really, really wonderful:

(636): we were spooning and you were the big spoon but you insisted that I call you "the ladle"

Yes.

Check out the brand new Sequential Tart, which includes (among other awesome comics and pulp-culture coverage) my write-up of Penny Arcade Expo 2009--many thanks again to revena for the Latin help!

If you want an additional fix, I've also got a Michael Collins poem in the second issue of Stumptown Underground (which, incidentally, is currently accepting ( Read more... )

Consider attending p:ear noir on Wednesday, October 7th, at 7:00 PM. It's pricey, but it's a fundraiser for p:ear, a local homeless youth arts and mentorship center (back when Sequential Heart was still active, p:ear was one of its main beneficiaries. I've spent a few evenings there, and it's a really fantastic place, one well worth supporting; if ( Read more... )

Last night, M sent me a link to an article he thought might resonate with me. And oh, boy, did it ever: I Will Not Read Your Fucking Script, by Josh Olson ( Read more... )

...clearly know what's up.

Huge congrats to Jane Yolen and Ellen Asher (but mostly to Jane, 'cause I don't know Ellen), and h/t to nihilistic-kid for the tip.

Listen closely, because I am going to tell you a Great Truth:

Once you've ceased to revise, your intentions no longer matter.As a reader, I don't give a fuck what you were trying to communicate. All I care about is what's printed on the page. If your character reads as 2-D, it does not matter how much you have fleshed her out in her head, or how ( Read more... )

I'm thinking of starting a filter to post dribs and drabs and bits of things--not finished pieces, just notes and fragments. If you're interested in being privy to some of the less-polished inner gear-workings of my writer brain, comment, and I'll put you in.

I have a new article on the whitewashing of Avatar: The Last Airbender in the current issue of Sequential Tart.

In tangentially related news, I finally watched the end of the series this weekend. It seemed very, very rushed, but otherwise good. No spoilers in the comments, please, for the folks who haven't seen it but still intend to.